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...when, for instance, he has been called by The Crimson for comment on a volatile story. Bok and others in Mass Hall have recognized this and have encouraged Hall to quell his impulse to express his gut reactions. For example, in a confidential memo relayed from Daly to Bok, Robin Schmidt, assistant vice president for government affairs, advised in September 1974 that the Bok administration should continue to head off some of Hall's comments that appear to ignore the "scholarly concerns" of members of the Harvard community...
Male prostitutes who are teen-age or younger are greatly in demand, particularly by older married men. Robin Lloyd, a Los Angeles writer-producer, has just written a book on the subject: For Love or Money, to be published next spring by Vanguard Press. Lloyd estimates that more than 100,000 American boys between the ages of 13 and 16, mostly runaways from working-class or welfare families, are actively engaged in prostitution. Neither the Los Angeles nor the San Francisco police find his figure too high. Recent police raids uncovered teen-age brothels in Los Angeles and New Rochelle...
...fortune" plot is an archetype that makes great entertainment for people who are obsessed with money. In cultures like ours, where the strongest clear attitudes toward established wealth are awe and contempt, the story is especially satisfying because its Robin Hood overtones are morally appealing. It tells you who the good guys and the bad guys are, and within its constructs the ambiguity toward wealth is temporarily resolved. Kind Hearts and Coronets, the famous British film comedy on the same theme, is in fact so moralistic that in the end nobody wins out, everyone having been clearly shown the error...
...Director David Jones and the newly appointed artistic director of the Stratford Festival, Robin Phillips, they have rubbed a theatrical Aladdin's lamp and produced effulgent magic...
Thanks to Director Robin Phillips and a cast that matches purity of speech with clarity of sense, this comedy from Shakespeare's "black period" glistens with troubling beauty...