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...fallen arches. This sad creature takes the holiday of his dreams, literally, combining hunting and fishing with other manly pursuits, e.g., rape, torture, kidnap and/or murder. Optional extras are sexual deviation, castration and severe mutilation, variously featured in such creations as James Dickey's Deliverance and David Osborn's more recent novel Open Season, a dreadful account of three top Detroit executives who each year put a man and a woman to death for sport. (Says the jacket blurb, a searing portrait "of America in the seventies...
...Baby Maker) uses a typically tense year at Harvard Law School as a metaphor for the reflexive mania of competition, trying to squeeze into a school term a full complement of crosscurrents in the American national character. His designs for his story (adapted from a novel by John Jay Osborn Jr.) seem rather too hefty to be sustained by such a modest narrative, however. Bridges, like his hero, gets trapped in his ambitions...
Sacks, like many students and administrators in the Harvard community, takes a dim view of John Jay Osborn's picture of life at Harvard Law. Sacks, for one, objects to the movie's handling of a student's attempted suicide. "I think it was very unreal to present it as they did," says Sacks. Severe academic problems, Sacks suggests, are frequently more complicated than they seem...
...research, ad creation, media buying, and product and package design; admen sometimes even wrote obituaries of executives of client companies. Now many increasingly sophisticated advertisers have their own research and media departments and no longer want to pay for all these services. Full-service agencies like Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, Ogilvy & Mather, and Grey accommodate clients by providing services individually, or "à la carte," for negotiated fees...
Galbraith said yesterday that he knew Osborn Elliott '46, the editor of Newsweek, and that he was writing the column as a favor...