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Love Story, Paramount's blockbuster lackluster tear-jerker. Harvard Square. 2:15, 5:55, 9:35. With Plaza Suite, 4 and 7:40. Until March...
...move in. In the first decade of operation graduate students, especially those in the Law School, took rooms in the Houses. Lowell felt that such contact between undergraduates and graduate students would be desirable, but in the long run it was incompatible with a goal that must have been paramount for him--full participation by the College. The requirement for all undergraduates to live in the Houses only came as a matter of financial exigency during the Second World War. There is no doubt, however, that the Houses were felt to be a success from the very beginning...
...find for the GSD? The presence on the list of so many persons associated with a conservative political stance and the university version of "law and order"--Professors Anderson, Banfield, Francis Bator, Cox, Deutsch, Heimert, Maass, Mason, to name just a few--suggests that the latter motive was paramount in at least some nominators' minds. Assumedly to balance this possible tendency, I was given the very important right to place names into nomination myself. But this rights was never accorded me, and the slate therefore consisted, and the final committee was formed, of persons of the GSD Faculty's choosing...
...lead induna, or head man, resplendent in hyena tails and impala, monkey and civet skins, carried an Instamatic. Alongside the bare-breasted girls singing for the warriors were some in Maidenform bras. When the newly enthroned Paramount Chief left the party, it was in a new Chrysler. In most respects, however, the crowning of 23-year-old Prince Zwelithini Goodwill Ka-cyprian Bhekuzulu in the Royal Kraal at Nongoma last week was faithful to the folkways of the days when the Zulus were the largest tribe and mightiest warriors in all of Black Africa...
...proposition that the substantive issues involved are unimportant or meaningless, and, whoever "wins." this would further weaken the position of the forces of legitimate scholarship and intellectual freedom. It is, as I say, encouraging to find that there are 107 courageous members of the academic community who recognize the paramount importance of the substantive issues involved and their implications for public policy and who are demanding that this issue be publicly debated on its merits...