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...actively recruited, whether the chance of success is high or not. Relatively few minorities and women occupy important positions in this university and, if Harvard appears to be lax in its recruiting efforts, an already limited sense of community will be even more seriously undermined. Such laxity will also prey on the recruitment of minority students, already slowing in recent years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reaffirm Affirmative Action | 12/5/1983 | See Source »

...five murders has a problem surviving anything but a bloody depressing finale. Levin provides an out; it is played well, adding a twist to make sure the audience leaves laughing and able to speculate on what happens next. That mixture of laughter and uncertainty make Deathtrap audiences easy prey...

Author: By John F. Baughman, | Title: Mind Games | 11/9/1983 | See Source »

...every corner of the world and ranged in bulk from the chicken-size Compsognathus to the 100-ton Brachiosaurus, the largest creature ever to trod the earth. Though they plodded through swamps and shallow coastal waters, they were essentially land bound. Some ambled on all fours; others scampered after prey on their lower limbs. Some may have lived a century or more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Debunking Dinosaur Myths | 10/17/1983 | See Source »

...superdog, unlike the football offenses, was not easily deterred. Not put off by the officer's doggery, the canine crusader stalked its prey again, grabbed it around the middle and carried it back away from the endline...

Author: By Mike Knobler, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Shaggy Dog Story | 10/11/1983 | See Source »

...Dalloway, was that her "stream of consciousness" method was not only startlingly original but startlingly successful as well. In To the Lighthouse the stream-of-consciousness technique is present as before but its presence is subtler, more diffused. Weaving, stalking, spying from thickets, she discovers the nature of her prey. The actual capture she leaves to those who, reading her book, are her companions in the chase...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books 1927: ELMER GANTRY, MRS. DALLOWAY, MAGIC MOUNTAIN | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

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