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...Harvard-Yale track team against Oxford and Cambridge, he out-jumped the former Harvard track captain who was leading the British, in what he later described as the greatest thrill of his Harvard career. After his first two games Ohiri was never in full form again. Munro says in retrospect, "The thing that I always think about is that after those initial two games, I never saw him healthy...
...retrospect, the CRIMSON article should have been more explicit about procedures and we thank our many careful readers for having pointed out the shortcomings of the poll's explication...
...musical too. But Nunnally Johnson, who did the screenplay to the 1943 movie Holy Matrimony, has merely tightened his script a little and introduced a few new scenes in converting it to musical comedy. It isn't enough. Though Holy Matrimony was a charming comedy, its success is in retrospect attributable to the genius of its star, Monty Woolley. In the same role--that of England's foremost turn-of-the-century painter, Priam Farll--Vincent Price falls completely flat and pulls the show down with...
...South Vietnamese Army. South Vietnamsee soldiers are hard to communicate with, unlike Westerners they never say anything in a straight-forward fashion but instead drop hints about their real feelings. Sloan says that he tried to get through to them, to understand what they really wanted, but that in retrospect they seemed not unlike "the docile Negroes in the South, the Uncle Toms who have been tricked into going along with the system...
Even during the past decade, when the creative impulse in film has seemed to be the province of European directors, Hollywood has turned out movies that at least in retrospect, have the qualities of classics. Hitchcock's Psycho inaugurated America's cinema of cruelty, with a demonic amalgam of bloodshed and violence that was not equaled until Bonnie and Clyde. Stanley Kubrick's Lolita treated the forbidden subject of nymphet-mania with cool humor; his Dr. Strangelove demonstrated that the biliousness of black comedy was as American as the H-bomb. John Frankenheimer's The Manchurian...