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Maybe Revolution is the mother country's revenge. Hugh Hudson memorialized Britain's play-fair pluckiness in Chariots of Fire, then suggested in Greystoke, that its weary civilization stifled man's best primal instincts. This time Hudson does not take sides. He hates 'em both. The Redcoats stagger across a battlefield like Monty Python twits; the colonists see defeat approaching and run like dogs. But this seems less cynical impartiality than a failure of craft. The film's central characters have virtually nothing to do with the winning or losing of the war. Working-class Boatsman Tom Dobb (Al Pacino...
This committee includes Arthur A. Ballantiue, Jr. '36, Thomas H. Bilodcau '37, Raymond Dennett '36, Robert Dunn '37, Milton G. Green '36, Benjamin H. Hallowell '36, Robert S. Play-fair '36, and White...
...Greene '38, E. W. James '38, T. P. Kolman '38, E. T. Ladd '38, W. P. Lester '38, E. Levens '38, R. S. Levy '38, E. W. Meisenhelder, 3rd '38, B. Michael GB, J. L. Morrison '38, A. M. Nittle '36, O. Paul '38, R. S. Play-fair '36, D. Rhodes '38, H. A. Robinson '38, I. Romanow '37, W. H. Shapley '38, R. W. Snyder '38, A. Steinberg '38, W. P. Swett '38, L. B. Wheildon '36, P. White...
...Play-fair '36, captain of the Freshman Cross Country team, was only two seconds behind last year's captain. Pier, in the long race. These two runners and J. S. Hayes '33 completely out-distanced the rest of the field, their nearest competitor, C. F. Woodard '35, being more than a minute behind them...
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