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...Robert Maynard Hutchins...
...National Association of Scholars recently published a study of the country's top 50 colleges and universities which garnered much press and which "Great Books" program founder Robert Maynard Hutchins likely would have agreed with. Its graphic title left little to the imagination: "The Dissolution of General Education, 1914-1993." Citing examples such as the recent debate at Georgetown University over whether to allow English majors to graduate without having read Shakespeare, it asserted (in not the first statement of its kind) that "institutions of higher learning have generally abandoned most of the core academic requirements once considered essential...
...dangerous the government considered him. LEARY IS GOD was almost as popular a button on campus as peyote was in the mid-'60s. It wasn't just the kids who fell under the spell of Leary and LSD, but Establishment figures as well: Cary Grant, Steve Allen and musician Maynard Ferguson, not to mention TIME magazine founder Henry Luce and his wife, playwright and diplomat Clare Boothe Luce...
...lost in the first act. Just when you thought things were as complex as they were going to get, in come Jack Point (Doug Miller '96) and Elsie Maynard (Heidi Brown '99), a couple of charming strolling singers. Elsie agrees to marry Fairfax--she can't resist the hundred crowns offered--and, of course, Point cares for Elsie, but he hasn't declared himself to her. Their duets are the best thing about the show, hands down. Brown has a wonderful voice, powerful and elegant. Miller's adorable song and dance numbers win the audience over in no time...
...career. Told in a blur of tabloid headlines, mockumentary interviews and dramatic reconstructions, the movie is the story of Suzanne Stone Maretto, a vamp from Little Hope, New Hampshire, who persuades a smitten teenager (Joaquin Phoenix) to try murdering her husband (Matt Dillon). The film, based on Joyce Maynard's novel, is a classy collision between the chipper misanthropy of scriptwriter Buck Henry and the eroticizing of dopey young sociopaths found in director Gus Van Sant's earlier work (Drugstore Cowboy, My Own Private Idaho...