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After reading the article entitled "The Flap Over Diana" [in the current issue of What is to be Done"] I felt compelled to share my views. The author, Errol T. Louis, attacked Jeffrey Ferguson's letter to the editors, labelling it "sophomoric." This label was surprising, since the author felt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: More Diana | 5/11/1983 | See Source »

Bardot recalls her early childhood as the proper jeune fille of an affluent father who once whipped her 50 times. ("I felt like a stranger in my parent's house. That's perhaps why I have had so many houses, houses I have bought myself, to feel at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Confessions of a Femme Fatale | 1/10/1983 | See Source »

If you liked Airplane, here's your chance to get more of the same. If you didn't deign to attend a film so sophomoric, so silly, drop the pretensions and try this one; you may be pleasantly surprised. The movie's mainstay is its rapid-fire humor, and, even...

Author: By Clen Simon, | Title: Joke Trek | 12/14/1982 | See Source »

At one campus the merciless vitriol of a conservative weekly has provoked an uneasy, university-wide debate about just how much free speech a civilized community can tolerate. Pervading the pages of the Dartmouth Review, founded in 1980, is a sophomoric brand of macho humor. An essay in its Oct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Conservative Rebels on Campus | 11/8/1982 | See Source »

Since then, the Advocate has undergone great changes, both in content and direction. What began as a politically oriented in-house journal of football scores and sophomoric anecdotes became, within the space of 30 years, a serious literary magazine. In 1869, "Harvard" was added to its official title, perhaps in...

Author: By Sarah Paul, | Title: New Directions on South St. | 11/3/1982 | See Source »

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