Word: smarter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Caesar and Cleopatra. Bernard Shaw's Caesar is a good-tempered genius. Its clear why he conquered the world; he was smarter than anyone else, and learned the art of civilization while he conquered. He attempts to teach it to the ardent young Cleopatra, who's not very interested in him otherwise. In so doing, he loses part of his army, but ultimately saves his neck. Gabriel Pascal produced and directed the film, which is photographed by four top British cameramen in florid Technicolor; Vivien Leigh and Claude Rains ham it up nicely as the title characters...
...Muller, you don't know how hard it is to be so much smarter than you boys. Why I (and I but many other "Cliffies") discovered long before you (in your next-to last paragraph) that the obvious answer to the Equal Admissions vs. Money and Expension problem is to admit fewer undergraduate men into the University...
...from now you might be pushing like hell to get your daughters into Harvard (especially if, heaven forbid, you have no sons)? And what of alunal contributions? Doesn't it seem (now "Cliffies," it's no fair for you to answer this one, just because you're four times smarter and your voices are who-knows-how-many-times louder) that there is some correlation between education, jobs, and alumni (alumaes) contributions...
...speeches to end in a song. Gorgeous sets, an even more gorgeous Anna (Samantha Eggar) and a brood of cute Oriental brats seem equally out of place in a show that is nothing more than the standard TV saga of the dumb daddy, the smart mamma and the smarter kids who walk over both of them...
Until his China trip. Richard Nixon was generally treated by the columnists--confident that they were smarter and tougher than the President--as a malevolent and silly child. Now, somehow, he's a political genius. George McGovern has become the class served up some bacon, and set to work each morning with a knife and fork. Why this cruelty? Because McGovern had shown weakness: he had shown himself to be politically salve...