Word: silent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Unbelievable. That was the word on everyone's lips Saturday after Harvard basketball's latest setback, which dropped the team's record to 4-10 for the season. It hung over the silent Harvard locker room while the Crimson hoopsters tried to comprehend their 73-72 defeat, tried to fathom their monumental fold which brought a UConn team on the edge of extinction, down 18 points in the second half with their imposing center already fouled out of the game, to victory...
...silent man no longer
Some of the best film offerings of last fall came from the Radcliffe Quad Film Society. Showing a commercial stubborness and just about the best taste around, it was the only film society on campus that would replace probably the best silent dramatic film ever made (M., by Fritz Lang) with another Lang classic that is almost never shown--Metropolis. They're also responsible for bringing you Lubitsch's great The Blue Angel. This reading period the folks at Radcliffe are doing a retrospective of Czech New Wave films, something they did five years ago, replete with screenwriters, film makers...
...known "by people who have never heard of Jesus Christ," Screen Star Charlie Chaplin once said of himself. Yet when the Little Tramp of silent films was buried in Switzerland last week, following his death on Christmas Day at the age of 88, the final scene was a family affair. Wife Oona, 52, a small circle of friends and servants, and eight of Chaplin's nine children gathered in Corsier-sur-Vevey, the small village where he had lived for the last 25 years and where he was laid to rest in a plot overlooking Lake Geneva. Chaplin...
...days in Cell 54 of Qurah Maydan Prison. He remembered books he had absorbed, like Lloyd Douglas' The Magnificent Obsession and Jack London's The Sea Wolf. All dealt with the victory of the spirit over adversity. Even in prison, Sadat was a loner who kept silent, remembers Moussa Sabry, one of four inmates who escaped with Sadat from an earlier jailing. They crawled through a hole in the roof of the camp's rabbit hutch. Says Sabry: "Somehow Sadat made us hold the secret from the hundreds of prisoners...