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...dehydrated, you can find Wuthering Heights. I took a course last year on the Novel and the Cinema, one of those hybrid classes which inevitably slights both sets of contributing genes--all three of the heavies teaching the course hated the movie, and if you're a Bronte purist you will too. But of all the romances to hit this festival, this movie by a long shot is the best. Olivier made his first American appearance in it and he is, will always be, the only Heathcliffe for anyone who sees it. It was, he says now, the moment when...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SCREEN | 5/15/1975 | See Source »

Although there were cheers in Watson Rink when Brown was announced to be leading B.U., the hockey purist has to be happy that B.U. won, even though it will make the Crimson's path to the NCAA championships in St. Louis more difficult. Fans may eventually be treated to an ECAC "grudge match" final between the archrival Terriers and the Crimson...

Author: By A.p. Quigley, | Title: Harvard's Four-Line Shower Rusted the Golden Knights | 3/5/1975 | See Source »

...members harbor a stern faith in equality; they say they are democratic, and in meetings they fiercely assert the right of every member to speak his or her piece without "getting trampled on," as Allen says. D-SOC members do not seem so obsessed with this purist notion, perhaps because they have already made the concession to work within the system...

Author: By Philip Weiss, | Title: Left-Liberals and Revolutionists at Harvard | 9/30/1974 | See Source »

Harvard's historical claim to primacy stems from the use of "Boston Game" rules. Prior to 1874, Princeton, Yale, Rutgers and Columbia played an effete "soccer-style" football that would today be disdained by any purist...

Author: By Jefferson M. Flanders, | Title: Harvard to Mark First Football Game | 5/14/1974 | See Source »

...exactly a game the baseball purist would have found totally satisfying...

Author: By William E. Stedman jr., | Title: Crimson Nine Destroys B.C. | 4/9/1974 | See Source »

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