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French director Robert Bresson’s 1966 classic is re-released to a public desperately in need of cinema that one imdb commentator terms “Intolerably Beautiful.” The film follows the journey of Balthazar, a donkey, from his happy early life, through his sojurn as a downtrodden beast of burden to his happy end-of-life working for a miller who thinks he is a reincarnated Saint. His journey parallels that of the lovely young girl who originally named Balthazar as she grows out of her beautific childhood into a terrible relationship where...
...whooping reminiscent of the narcotics-induced pandemonium of a rock concert. But these people do not get off on junk or ganja, they get off on quaintly named exercises like psychocalisthenics, karma processing and catharsis for the Acceptance of Change. As we are assured by our guide on this sojurn into Aricaland, "The same general principles operating in the system at large are also operative in the spirit and body of humanity...
...Saturday, December 17, the cagers take a sojurn in cactus country where they will play coach Fred Snowden's Arizona five in Tuscon. The Wildcats went 21-5 last year finishing as runner-up to Utah for the Western Athletic Conference title. Both Arizona and Arizona State University are forsaking the WAC in favor of the Pacific-8, which next year will...
These questions are important, for they form the center of the great calendar-reform controversy. No one wants to go home for Christmas, only to face another month of courses, review, and then, finally, examinations when he returns to school. It's so wonderful to make the long-awaited sojurn home in December, to see family and friends, and to hear "oh, weren't finals so rough? Christ I'm glad they're over with. I worked my ass off studying those last couple of weeks." Comments like these do much to enliven an otherwise dull vacation, and the possibilities...
There are some people who have been waiting since the demise of i.e. The Cambridge Review for hopeful signs on the Harvard magazine scene. Like the Godot sojurn, this wait has been punctuated with a good deal of talk and some potato-chip philosophizing...