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...asked not to be identified, said recently the participants have agreed that the proctorial system of the freshman year "seems to work" and won't need radical changes. Additionally, the group has decided that any further centralization in the now limited counseling network "would create just another bureaucratic monster on campus," the committee member said...

Author: By Nicole Seligman and Charles E. Shepard, S | Title: The Task Forces Teeter Along | 3/2/1976 | See Source »

...Millet, art is slavish copying of nature. He lights his lantern and goes looking for cretins. . .imagine a monster with no skull, the eye extinguished by an idiot's squint, straddling in the middle of a field like a scarecrow. No spark of intelligence humanizes this resting brute. Has he been working or murdering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: A Great Lost Painter | 2/23/1976 | See Source »

...more than just a sick joke. He cannot. Levin's primitive literary skills aside, the turning of Josef Mengele into a mad scientist from the pages of a 1940s comic book requires more than a suspension of disbelief. It also requires a suspension of taste. Exploiting such a monster for entertainment and profit is enough to give evil a bad name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rosemary's F | 2/23/1976 | See Source »

Staring down the double barrels of Elmer Fudd's shotgun or outrunning some improbably hirsute monster in sneakers, Bugs simultaneously courted disaster and mocked it. His wiseacre bravado caught the tone of the times. His was the attitude of the perennial winner, so it is not surprising that Bugs found his greatest popularity during and following the second World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rabbit Stew | 2/2/1976 | See Source »

Freleng's Rhapsody Rabbit features Bugs as a concert pianist laying waste one of Liszt's Hungarian rhapsodies. Hair-Raising Hare, directed by Jones, pits Bugs against both a Peter Lorre prototype and the sneaker monster, showing the rabbit at his most unflappable. As he struggles to hold a wooden castle door closed against his pursuer, he calls out: "Is there a doctor in the house?" A silhouette appears on the screen, as if from the audience, and says: "Yes, I'm a doctor." Bugs, suddenly taking an insouciant munch on a carrot and ignoring the peril...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rabbit Stew | 2/2/1976 | See Source »

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