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Clearly the main culprit in the battle for an open decision making process at this University is the administration itself. It condescendingly views student protest as a kind of quaint extracurricular activity which doesn't affect the University. It even tries to squelch participation in its affairs by tampering with elections by its own alumni, as it did this year in the annual vote for the Board of Overseers. (The Board is a 30-member alumni body which technically oversees all decisions by the policy-making Harvard Corporation...
Another Kovacs anomaly: though his legend has grown since his death in a car accident in 1962, at age 42, his programs--mostly in quaint black and white--have remained largely unseen. Unlike the TV work of most of his comedy contemporaries (who are still active or whose shows can be seen in reruns), . the bulk of Kovacs' tapes have either been lost or relegated to dusty shelves. To remedy that, the Museum of Broadcasting in New York City has mounted a summerlong retrospective of Kovacs' oeuvre that demonstrates once again the importance of seeing Ernie...
...place is the Signet Literary Society--or Siggy as its members affectionately refer to it--and for the last 116 years in its quaint yellow cottage on Dunster Street has been a better gathering place for some of the Harvard intelligentsia, than Ticknor Lounge, and yes, even better than Adams House...
...understated that you are likely to come out wondering what you just saw on the screen. It's pace is comparable to that of other films exploring gentle human frailties--not unlike the flow of Local Hero, a movie which captures the odd habits of a small and quaint community and the idiosyncracies of its inhabitants...
Britain's love affair with the Indian subcontinent, in books, films and mini- series, is a quaint disease, a melancholy for everything exotic the empire has owned and lost. To a romantic imperialist brooding over his sherry, the decorous Indians, with their subversive good manners, impressive intellectual tradition and caste system as rigid as their overlords', seemed perfect Asian ambassadors for all things English. The years have lent Indians and Pakistanis of old an ironic nobility; about them a Brit can feel at once guilty and nostalgic. Unless, of course, one has to deal with their sons and daughters...