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...Lionel, Ethel and John Barrymore. Eva Le Gallienne's performance is a masterpiece. She is the clear, ringing voice of Kaufman's satirical commentary on all things fashionable, vain or sentimental, and the vechicle for some of his greatest lines. Sam Levene, probable most widely known as the first Nathan Detroit in the original Broadway production of Guys and Dolls, plays opposite her as Oscar Wolfe, the family's long-suffering theatrical manager, forever hoping to salvage some remnant of his sanity and his job out of the daily chaos of the Cavendish household. Julie Cavendish, the majestic daughter...
...local TV news programs and declared that it was not student actions that ended the embarrassing strike; both publicly and privately, the Brown administration has fostered the notion of "community" as a buttress against the bad press generated by student actions on behalf of the workers. Many students--including Nathan Bicks, president of the Brown student council--say they believe the arrests, the first ever on the Brown campus by local police, permanently destroyed that notion...
...same issue as the editorial, the Crimson also carries a story depicting the use of Nathan Glazer's book Affirmative Discrimination as a tool of anti-busing and other seemingly reactionary forces. The book, which effectively documents some of the excesses and contradictions of affirmative action programs, should serve as a warning to those who attempt to expand the scope of these programs, such as Harvard's to an extent that they become laughable--but much worse--legitimately vulnerable to the criticisms of those who would have them dismantled altogether...
...correct decision? It is far from obvious, Colen writes, that the only humane thing to do was to let the baby die, that "quality of life" considerations dictated the doctor's actions. Confronted with a life-and-death decision, most people would stop at nothing to remain alive, Dr. Nathan Schnaper, one of Colen's sources, says. "There's a place in Mexico," he told Colen, "which serves meconium cocktails." Meconium is the feces in the intestinal tracts of infants, and the drinkers believe it will help you live longer...
...most important of the Harvard-Washington connections are not necessarily formal ones. As former President Nathan M. Pusey '28 observed in his 1965 report to the University...