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...Harvard Medical School has accepted 109 men and 56 women for the class of 1979 from 3208 total applicants, Herbert A. Shaw, a spokesman for the Medical School, said yesterday...
...total number of applicants fell this year. Shaw said form last year's 3258 applicants to 3208 men and women applicants...
...painstaking and careful researcher, posing extremely provocative questions: Why did the FBI tell Harcourt, Brace, and World that it didn't want Rush to Judgment published?. Why did Victor Marchetti, former CIA agent and present investigator of the organization tell a journalist who had covered the Clay Shaw trial in New Orleans that the CIA was very interested in the case because Shaw was a high ranking CIA operative? (Shaw was a New Orleans businessman accused by city District Attorney Jim Garrison of conspiring to assassinate President Kennedy. He was eventually acquitted and Garrison himself became the target...
...Celebration concerns the 40th wedding anniversary of the Shaws, and their three sons who return home to make an occasion of it. Mr. Shaw (Bill Owen) has a weak heart from working in the coal mines of Northern England. Mrs. Shaw (Constance Chapman), doted on and fussed over, defers to her husband but remains an enigmatic center of her troubled household. The three sons are creatures of compromise and uncertainty. Andrew, the eldest (Alan Bates), has forsaken a legal career to paint geometric canvases. His flattery and good will always carry an edge of irony that barely conceals a fearful...
There can be no reprisals among the Shaws because no wound can be located; there is only an ache, a feeling of deadness at the center. Indeed, Mrs. Shaw does seem, for Storey, somehow the source of all the frustration and un-channeled fury. What finally makes In Celebration subordinate to such later works as Home and The Contractor is that Mrs. Shaw remains as remote from us as she does from her family. Storey cannot bring us near enough to see or understand the failures of the past. The film gives the sense of the revelation of a scar...