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...outline, this sounds like a ghetto translation of sex-reversal farce: Tevye meets Tootsie. Yentl mines much judicious merriment from the plight of a girl who wants to prove herself a man but is in love with a man who's in love with the girl she has married. But there are sweet and subtle tones to the comedy. In three versions of the song No Wonder, Yentl muses in derision, then in awe, then in sympathy, on Hadass's domestic graces. Composer Michel Legrand and Lyricists Marilyn and Alan Bergman have constructed the score as Yentl...
...University should address the problem of alienated undergraduates who withdraw from the mainstream of Harvard academic a faculty member asserts in a recently released report describing the plight of so-called "phantom students...
Harvard fans who thought their team had trouble settling on a signal caller can take heart from the Elis plight Junior Mike Luzzi was the original starter: he lasted two quarters. Curtin entered at halftime of the season-opener and couldn't quite manage a game winning rally against Brown...
...Johnson, expresses the dilemma that such a situation creates: "God knows we might have learned from our tragic Viet Nam fiasco that, as a great power, we should deploy our troops only where they are vitally needed and it is clear they can be effectively used ... [otherwise] their bitter plight will exhibit not America's strength but its impotence...
Lance Morrow's Essay "Thinking Animal Thoughts" [Oct. 3] left much room for humane reflection. Those of us who are concerned with the plight of animals used for research purposes are a far cry from the fanatics described in your article. The offense committed against these creatures is not, as Morrow suggests, the taking of their lives. Rather, it is the pain that is inflicted upon them. Scientific advancement and humaneness toward animals are compatible. Ethical guidelines have even been established for the use of laboratory animals. Live animals should be used only when there is no adequate alternative...