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...others that are most personal. We are proud that he was one of us, and he made us producer of our University. Not long ago he lived and studied in our halls, walked the familiar paths across the Yard, played on soldiers Field, and in Cambridge grew to manhood. True to his principles he strove to give to Harvard as much as it game him. He was first a director of the Alumni Association and then an Overseer from 1957 to the year of his death. He held the chairmanships of our Board's committees to visit the Departments...
...from its bitterness. Thus the most rousing songs of the best Irish tenors celebrate some irregular victory or bravely borne defeat. And it is just this-the rich lyric feeling of Irish patriotism-that is the real subject of Michael Farrell's evocative novel of the growth to manhood of Matthew Martin Reilly during the worst of the Irish troubles as they rose to a crescendo at the time of World...
...Bondage. When a Hollywood actress begins to hunger for juicier roles, she often ends up playing a tart. Sadie Thompson or maybe Nana. Or sometimes Mildred, the strumpet waitress who dishes out the spice and spite in Somerset Maugham's classic autobiographical novel of the torments of young manhood. Bette Davis flashed on-screen as the first movie Mildred, in 1934. Eleanor Parker entered a low bid in 1946. Now, all Mildred's beads, feather boas, and skin-tight finery bedizen the substantial person of Kim Novak. Though the film will give ordinary moviegoers little pleasure...
...Celibacy is possible; no serious psychologist pretends otherwise," states Hermand. Having himself entered the seminary at 13, Hermand makes the point that many candidates for the priesthood take the vow of chastity while their manhood is still dormant...
...field. A little boy in New York stares through a prism with which he can change the very face of the city. A little boy in the jungle learns the rhythm of a drum. A narrator speaks in the first person, describing his life from childhood to manhood, while the images on the screen shift constantly from the familiar to the distant, from face to face, from suburb to desert, from young Africans flirting in canoes to young Italians at a wedding feast in the hills of Assisi. The film is funny, informative, poetic, moving, ingenious, instructive, entertaining and beautifully...