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...anger of the Negro community, that I lodge this charge of moral failure and ethical cowardice at those who dictate policy for the University, above all the President and Deans. We have yet to discover how our nation's outstanding place of learning can sit back in brick oblivion and course-book apathy and watch America's Number One Norern Segregationist chart her way to power not seven minutes distant, not five miles off. In this Harvard shows itself no different perhaps than the society of which it is a product. No more and no less than the white bigot...
House members are lining up a far fiercer gantlet for the bill than the Senate presented. Many House members, who are in a cost-cutting mood, want to reorganize OEO into oblivion; there is also a widespread conviction that poverty funds should be pared. And, unlike their Senate colleagues, the House critics complement rather than offset one another. When the authorization bill runs its House test, the President is more likely to be fighting for enough money than fighting off too much...
...cooperation. Now the President of Uganda, Obote is governing his country in much the same way. Last week, as Uganda's 8,000,000 people prepared for this week's celebration of the fifth anniversary of their independence from Britain, Obote seized the occasion to drive into oblivion Uganda's four hereditary monarchs under the terms of a new constitution that gives him powers approaching those of a dictator...
...mercy of oblivion promptly descended on Dr. Cook's Garden, Keep It in the Family, and Song of the Grasshopper, three turkeys that trotted to their dooms. Appropriately enough, Garden was about mercy killing of a sort. Dr. Cook has kept God's bucolic little acre of Greenfield Center, Vt., weeded by systematically poisoning mentally retarded children and town skinflints who fight bills for new schools. Burl Ives as the doctor made a sly sweet monster, but he wasn't really scary. What was really scary about the Ira Levin melodrama was that someone produced...
West German critics greeted the rediscovery of Schönfeld with rejoicing, calling him "a man of major stature." They were somewhat at a loss to explain how such a great master could have been consigned to oblivion for so long. The best explanation seemed to be that Schönfeld's preoccupation with the macabre and the absurd, his penchant for scenes of gravediggers and treasure seekers, marked him as a German Romantic two centuries ahead of his time. Then, too, Schönfeld limned his scenes of violence in a cool, depersonalized vein. In the opinion...