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...imagine Mel Brooks as a Harvard professor of Psychology (and why not?--his lectures would be great). Dr. Richard H. Thorndike, Harvard prof and Nobel Prize-winner, is called away from Cambridge to take over as director of the Psycho-Neurotic Institute for the Very, Very Nervous in sunny California. On the way to the institute, he is told that his predecessor died under suspicious circumstances. Shortly thereafter he meets two of his associates at the institute, Dr. Montague and Nurse Diesel, played by two Brooks regulars, Harvey Korman and Cloris Leachman. Korman, as the neurotic, weak-willed doctor, seems...

Author: By Andrew Multer, | Title: Standard Anxiety | 4/3/1978 | See Source »

...himself from probing eyes and re-emerged with his own version of reality. Like the hot-house atmosphere in which it flourished, the main quality of that reality was its self-containment. Trevor-Roper returns to the world of Backhouse's memoris which offer the best prof...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mysteries of History | 10/12/1977 | See Source »

...going for the junkies. Benson falls for the tutor assigned to him by the athletic department, played by the appealing Annette O'Toole. She hates jocks, hates them with a passion, as does her hip psychology professor boyfriend. But Benson's earnestness soon makes her give up the obnoxious prof for her tutee, who convinces her that sports in themselves aren't all bad at the same time she initiates him to the pleasures of reading more than a playbook. The two make a sickeningly cute couple, and from their togetherness Benson finds the strength to surmount his difficulties. Eventually...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Exposing Intercollegiate Sports | 9/12/1977 | See Source »

...resolution supporting the boycott last week. At Harvard, a support committee consisting of students, tutors, and professors has been formed. So far, the committee includes Phillips Brooks House (Steering Committee), H-R Democratic Club (executive committee), Radcliffe Union of Students, Education for Action, the Task Force on Affirmative Action, Prof. John K. Galbraith and Robert Ginn (OCS-OCL). The Coop Board of Directors has agreed to discontinue purchase of Stevens products until the labor conflict is resolved. This Thursday, the Orson Welles Cinema will hold a benefit showing of Harlan County, U.S.A., a film about contemporary miners' struggles. All proceeds...

Author: By Timothy G. Massad, | Title: Battling the Modern Sweatshops | 5/3/1977 | See Source »

Aside from the discrepancy in the duo's scores, there were also temperamental difference. Fitzgibbons claimed to be "psyched out" by the high scoring of "S." Fitzgibbons has an affinity for shooting "low numbers," subscribing to the philosophy of the Scottish prof of old who gritted his teeth and said: "I 'ate heights." The plight of "S" is just as pitiful, for he faced an unequal task in competing with Fitzgibbons. He was not "playing a proud game," as caddies are wont to say. Nor is Fitzgibbons always the most encouraging of playing partners. His own words attest...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: A Spring Round With Spence | 4/29/1977 | See Source »

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