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Harvard is an amazing place. Your senior thesis in animation can win a prize at Toronto's annual animation festival, and almost no one around Harvard will ever hear about it. Harvard's only response to Joanne Freeman's 1976 success Toilette was, in effect, "Mazel tov, and we'll keep the royalties...
...movies in the New Personal Animation that are not products of the National Film Board of Canada, the British Film Institute, CalArts, or an Eastern European studio probably acknowledge a Harvard Vis Stud alum in the credits. Last weekend's New Personal Animation Part I included a Harvard senior thesis (Eggs. by Ruth Hays), a ten-foot set built in one of the studios in Vanserg for Asparagus, Susan Pitt, and three short diary films by Susan Rubin, who seems to be the guardian angel of the animators at work in the basement in Carpenter...
...Crimson came out as lively as the dead fish that fans later tossed on the ice, allowing the Big Red to swarm around John Hynes and blast 23 shots in the first 20 minutes on the befuddled senior netminder...
DIED. Allen Tate, 79, influential Southern poet, critic and teacher; in Nashville. A Kentuckian who as a boy longed to be another Edgar Allan Poe, Tate was a brilliant, arrogant senior at Vanderbilt University when he was invited to join a group of older poets known as the Fugitives, which included his teacher John Crowe Ransom. Believing that industrialism would ruin the South, Tate was for a time an agrarian and always venerated what he saw as the stability and simplicity of the Old South. He taught at a number of colleges, mainly the University of Minnesota, and helped found...
...degree in engineering from Annapolis (he finished 130th in the class of 1947, behind Jimmy Carter, who was 60th, and CIA Director Stansfield Turner, who was 25th); a master's in international relations from Stanford; and a doctorate in heroism from 7½ years as the senior American P.O.W. at Hoa Lo prison, the infamous Hanoi Hilton...