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...large ink-and-watercolor map of Harvard, done in medieval style by Thomas Wright, a superintendent at the Med School, will be auctioned off at 5 p.m. today in the Adams House Junior Common Room. Wright spent 1000 hours working on the map, which is on display in the window of the Harvard Barber Shop. Auctioneer Thomas G. Gutheil '63 will begin the budding at $50 and proceeds will go to Scientists and Engineers...
...afternoon turns cold, Neddy tires, and beyond the difficult portage of Route 424 he begins to see odd un-familiarities that are not on his mental map. The lawns of friends are weed-grown; for-sale signs appear. There is another pool party, but the hostess, who is a social inferior, snubs him. Someone offers a word of sympathy for Neddy's financial troubles, and Neddy, vaguely uneasy, cannot recall that he has any. Chilled, and more tired than seems reasonable, he doggedly swims the last leg of his trip and hurries home to his wife and four tennis...
Cliffies are restricted to the sixth-level classrooms, and they must use the west (first-level) entrance to Lamont. As a result of a move last year, they may also use the Map Room, now located on the first floor. They have always been admitted to the Document Room in the basement...
...shortage in clasroom space this year, a new employment policy, and the closing of the Widener Map Room have brought hordes of Cliffies and Harvard wives into the College's last all-male sanctuary...
...these and several other scenes, Director Sidney Lumet rises vigorously to the dread occasion. Item: the large animated map, on which enormous aerial battles are imagined in diagram and followed as they flow, is a magnificent narrative conceit. But during the last half of the film the illusion of reality slowly collapses into a steaming mess of socio-political platitudes ("In a nuclear war, everybody loses"). If Dr. Strangelove, as some think, made a serious subject silly, Fail Safe too often makes a serious subject soggy. The customers begin to yawn and then to smile. Indeed, in the final scene...