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Adam M. Keller '73 said, "The business career has acquired a stigma it didn't possess a few years ago. Students think of business careers as money-oriented and as careers in which they won't be able to question the use to which their work...
Perhaps the highest compliment that may be paid to their mutual work is that they raise Pinter's first full-length drama to virtually equivalent rank with such later, more lavishly acclaimed dramas as The Caretaker and The Homecoming. Actually, The Birthday Party seems to possess a more vivid symbolic imagery and a greater sense of motion than the other two plays. Like Waiting for Godot, although in a totally ominous sense, this is a play about waiting. Stanley (Robert Phalen) is a piano-playing recluse hiding out as a boarder in a small provincial town. The landlady (Betty...
...four indicators. One is the level of federal spending. Two others are interest rates and stock prices, which Laffer believes offer "unbiased forecasts" of future inflation and future profits, respectively. His "efficient markets theory" holds that interest rates and stock prices reflect largely the judgment of market insiders who "possess information about the future." This idea might bring hollow laughs from borrowers and investors who have lost money because of the gyrations of interest rates and the stock market...
...call him a "good storyteller" as Pauline Kael did, but that is precisely what he intends to be, and at times he is successful. He is crude in the sense that a Michael Curtiz or Roaul Walsh was crude, aiming for direct actions which are emotionally arousing but possess a sort of integrity: they don't score moral points. At one moment, a Teutonic Savanarola is thrown onto a witch's pyre of his own fashion, but there is no audience gratification-this though the priest, aside from the town merchant, is the film's leading villain. The motivations...
...members of an Overseers Visiting Committee do not necessarily possess the competence to judge the qualifications of possible faculty members and clearly do not have the responsibility to make such judgments. The members of the Visiting Committee of the Department of Government have scrupulously avoided any involvement with appointments in the Department...