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...attitude of the comptroller's office toward the whole affair is typical of a certain unenlightened group, unfortunately still large in the University, which believes that the best way to treat the newspapers is to snub them. Harvard does not need to go out deliberately seeking favorable publicity, but on the other hand, there can be little excuse for such obvious mishandling of press relations as that which occurred yesterday. January...
...tempestuousness and dwells in a tone of wistful resignation. The problem again is Rafelson's self-conscious world-weariness. He shows Nicholson improvising in the bathroom. "The form of the tragic autobiography is dead. I have chosen radio...because my life is hopefully, comically unworthy." If this is a snub at melodrama, it is hardly less sentimental. Rafelson has merely traded in emotional pathos for grotesque wihimsy David's jadedness is supposed to be glamorous, but David is drugged by his own disillusion; and this is irresponsible escapism...
Once again, the National Rifle Association proved to be stronger than the national interest. By a vote of 68-25, the Senate passed a bill banning the manufacture and sale of the Saturday Night Special, the snub-nosed handgun that is so often used to kill people. But the bill was shot so full of holes that the N.R.A. has nothing to worry about. Nor have the criminals...
...Jensen found the tooth of a long-extinct, snub-nosed little reptile called Lystrosaurus, which lived in Asia and Africa 200 million years ago. Its discovery in Antarctica provided convincing evidence that the continents were once linked together...
...large-caliber wisecrack, like the horse pistol, is part of America's past. As the Norman Mailer-Germaine Greer exchange indicated recently, the snub-nosed innuendo aimed below the belt is today's favored weapon. When quips were quips even a President of the United States could get them off. Remember the British diplomat who told Lincoln that "English gentlemen never black their own boots"? Lincoln looked up from buffing his own and replied, "Whose boots do you black...