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...report stated that there was a slight increase in the number of students interested in college teaching. "With society getting in college teaching. "With society getting tougher and tougher, people are beginning to see that the academic life is a good life," Paul N. Yivisaker, dean of the School' of Education, said yesterday, adding that the university is a "place where you can still live a life of values...
...comic intuition and craftsmanship. As a movie performer. Tomlin has every other American comedian beat--the nebbishness of Woody Allen, the manic antics of Mel Brooks, and the shrill flightiness of Goldie Hawn cannot come close. Such comics lack Tomlin's mastery of the subtle comic flourish, the slight gesture or tiny twitch that not only reveals character but grabs the Big Laugh as well...
Suddenly Mrs. Lee handed the receiver to me. "I just wanted you to know that we're all glad you're home," I said. There was a slight pause on the other end, marred by the clicks and scratches of a distant connection. Then came his reply: "Well, if it weren't for the press and the Algerians and the American people, we would never have gotten out of this mess...
Lannon presented the "Proposition 2 1/2" budget and two other proposed budgets as well: one calling for a very slight increase over current spending which he said would allow the system to maintain a decent education, and a slightly smaller "level-funded" system that would preserve the current budget but absorb all inflation...
Even Streep, whose lustrous presence and finely pitched acting skills provide the only reasons for purchasing a ticket, is not cast with total precision. Carroll had a predilection for small girls. Streep is so far from being petite that she might have intimidated that slight figure of a man. However, the radiant tightness of her features, her gestures, her bearing and her voice leads us into the vernal garden of childhood and the willing sus pension of disbelief. She turns two scenes into acting marvels. In one she mimics Humpty Dumpty about to fall off the wall but retaining full...