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...community projects for youngsters, helping them to cooperate and use their time in a generally productive manner. This distinction might be even more surprising to the majority of Harvard students, who are under the impression that Cambridge consists solely of Mass. Ave., JFK Street and a few outgrowing, round-about squiggles. It’s not that we bear the city any hostility, or even care at all what goes on here. Mostly, we’re blissfully indifferent.According to some student groups, that’s a problem: we don’t care. To ascertain as much...
Mary McCarthy has written that Watergate is the round-about way for Americans to try to come to terms with the Indochina War. Americans are unwilling to look directly at a decade of genocide in Indochina, McCarthy says, so they flagellate themselves about the thieves and the crooks in Washington...
...this kind of round-about logic, the United States is now bombing Cambodia to protect the viability of the Thieu regime in South Vietnam. It is now bombing Laos and threatening to bomb North Vietnam to protect the viability of the Lon Nol regime in Cambodia. And one wonders what this will lead the United States to next when it claims that it will have to protect the viability of the Phouma regime in Laos...
University protocol requires that the deans tender their resignations when a new President takes office. It is then up to the President to decide whether to accept the resignations, but usually if any changes are made, the President eases the dean out of office in a round-about, informal manner...
...which brings us in a round-about sort of way to The Champagne Murders (Le Scandale), a wonderful film by Claude Chabrol which I submit to you, over the hisses of Wednesday night's audience at the Harvard Square, as the best film yet released in 1968. Chabrol, whose Les Coursins is famous as one of the first accomplished works to emerge from the French nouvelle vague, has had a troubled career resembling Lang's and Welles's. The films after Les Cousins grew increasingly serious, tended toward morbidity, and lost both money and the critics. In order to keep...