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WRITING A THESIS is probably a good thing to do; without it you get restless, nervous, and wrought up over trifles; with it you get nervous, wrought up over details and are in danger of going stir crazy in front of a typewriter. But since Harvard seems to attract the obsessive-achiever type, goal-oriented, accustomed to accomplishment, writing one is probably a good idea. Writing one in Tommy's Lunch is probably a losing cause but stir craziness is easier to combat than restlessness. Go out drinking (with friends)--the Casablanca for weeknights or Spaghetti Emporium for the afternoon...

Author: By Dwight Cramer, | Title: Cutting the Old School Tie | 3/9/1974 | See Source »

...BEEN A year since the big stir over Last Tango in Paris. This year the commotion is over The Exorcist, and it's a more honest fuss over a less honest movie. People see The Exorcist because they want to be scared. They want to feel the emotion of the movie, and they say so. But people who saw Last Tango in Paris hid behind critical pretension. Not many people would admit they wanted to see the movie to feel the sex, the passion and the hate it contained. The audience, like the critics, thought its role was to decide...

Author: By Richard Shepro, | Title: A Sense of Death | 2/21/1974 | See Source »

...cover on Marlon Brando's controversial film, Last Tango in Paris, elicited an unprecedented 12,000 letters for a single story, surpassing the number received for the previous record holder, the cover story Is God Dead?, in 1966. A story need not be cover-length, however, to stir up a big response. A short item in People [April 2] on Billy Graham drew scores of letters, most of which criticized the evangelist's suggestion that rapists be castrated. "Bless Billy Graham for making virtue secure," wrote one subscriber, adding, "Christ was so namby-pamby about things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Feb. 18, 1974 | 2/18/1974 | See Source »

...group again in June, and, the poor whites say, told them that he personally had decided to exclude whites from the program. Crooks has a different version of the meeting; he says he told them that the program "is not going to exclude whites, but does not want to stir up a white applicant pool...

Author: By Nicholas Lemann, | Title: The Case of the Poor Whites Against Harvard | 2/8/1974 | See Source »

...Arthur Smithies of Kirkland and Bruce Chalmers of Winthrop will both reach 65, the mandatory retirement age--and there are bound to be some more vacancies in the next few years, especially since Bok's appointments only last five years. Last year, Vorenberg's appointment created more of a stir than Kiely's, if only because Bok didn't tip the Republicans off at the time. In February, a month before Bok appointed Vorenberg, Dunster House residents had signed a letter to Bok suggesting that he choose Caroline W. Bynum '63, assistant professor of History. Students in Dunster...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg, | Title: The Masters' Tournament | 2/7/1974 | See Source »

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