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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While Fast's primary goal in writing the trilogy may not be mercenary, it still seems ambitious. He recalls, "I set out five years ago to lay out a book that would span the entire recent life of California and also be some sort of a history of our time. I've always wanted to write a history of what I've lived through but I'm not an historian, and I thought the best way to do it would be through a novel...
...good job of keeping up with the Brown running game--which was awesome. But luck just wasn't going Harvard's way, as no one could get a shot off. Kathy Batter, Harvard center half-back, said after the game, "By the end of the first half we were sort of slowing down...
Dirty Harry. It's scary to think how many Americans, from assembly-line workers to advertising men to upwardly mobile Harvard students, are addicted to these sort of one-man vigilante, "take the law into your own hands" movies. Facile sociological comments about what Clint Eastwood's popularity tells us about Americans' repressed frustrations aside, a violence-glorifying film like Dirty Harry is incredibly dangerous. Its potential impact was dramatized just a month ago when after seeing the movie on television, two young brothers in Cleveland re-enacted a gunfight scene from the film and one accidentally shot the other...
Claire's Knee. The fifth of Eric Rohmer's "Six Moral Tales" is a sort of bagatelle within a book within a film. It's a wierd sort of whymsical fiction about a diplomat on vacation who becomes hopelessly pre-occupied with the knee of a seventeen year old girl who could care less about him -- all of which Rohmer presents as a story coming to life in the mind of a real-life author who keeps considering and rearranging the events as he writes. Rohmer handles this narrative complexity light-heatedly enough to make it fun rather than pretentious...
OVER THE PAST FEW MONTHS, people all over the country have been trying to sort out the issues and absorb the analyses in the controversial case of Regent of the University of California v. Allan Bakke. Many have debated with themselves about what personal stance to take, but have ended up more confused. Most people realize by now, for example, that the challenged U.C. Davis Medical School special admissions program goes beyond what is normally understood as affirmative action, but they question the charges that it amounts to a rigid quota system...