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...were able to retain most of our usual department headings, with some obvious omissions (Television, Cinema). Apart from these, the Law section was left out because law and lawyers had burst the bounds of the legal profession and were making news in all the great political events of the moment...
...eased some of its more humiliating aspects. But he has also rammed ahead with the Bantustan program of geographical separation by which South Africa will be broken up into racial enclaves. Blacks will be pushed into ten cramped tribal areas, which may eventually become sovereign states; whites will retain control of the richer farm lands, mining lands and urban areas, in which South African blacks will be classed as foreigners...
Such claims aside, a marginal case can be made for Jock Lit. Taken as innocent ego trips by authors who want to retain title to a Huck Finn boyhood without forfeiting their college degrees, the genre may be enjoyed by nostalgic and overeducated readers on their own night off. Furthermore, the premise behind these books is admirable: Why should the jock and the egghead be cultural schizophrenics? Alas, the question remains unanswered by those who now raise it. As ex-Puritans, Michener, Novak and their literary teammates are simply trying too hard to get body and soul together...
...final analysis, however, it is clear that Daly was simply unable to muster adequate support for a last-ditch effort on Harvard's part to retain at least some portion of the memorial. Community pressure and federal law combined to fell the Harvard giant...
...popular success continues to elude him, however, perhaps because he is a director who challenges an audience continually. Roeg means to change, or at least radically modify, the way we watch and respond to movies. He was formerly a brilliant cinematographer (Petulia, Far from the Madding Crowd), and images retain primacy in the movies he has directed. He uses little dialogue, intending the meaning of a movie to come clear through what is seen and intuited, not what is spelled...