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...Afro-American Studies Department is no stranger to controversy. The department grew out of the turbulent events of 1969, when black students called for its creation as one of the demands of the Harvard strike. While members of Afro, the student association of Harvard blacks, waited in the lobby of the Loeb Drama Center, the Faculty hotly debated whether the concentration in Afro-American Studies should be a full department or an interdisciplinary committee. Although the Faculty voted at that tense meeting to make Af-Am a department, that debate continues today. Over the past ten years, the University...
Louis is no stranger to controversy. He once was arrested by Stalin's police, and Salisbury repeats the report that Louis operated a store inside a concentration camp. He emerged during the Khrushchev era as not only a journalist but a very well connected middleman. His entrepreneurial activities have included attempting to stage a pirated Soviet production of the musical My Fair Lady in 1959, trying to sell Western publishers an unauthorized version of the memoirs of Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva, and possibly helping to spirit out of Russia the tapes and manuscripts for Khrushchev Remembers. Louis...
That was no Red Headed Stranger standing in the Oval Office in braids and denim pants. That was outlaw Country Star Willie Nelson presenting President Carter with a Steuben bowl for the President's efforts on behalf of country music. The award was recently created to honor people who make unique contributions to country music, and when the votes for the first recipient were counted, Carter was told, "lo and behold, your name led all the rest." Considering some of the other polls the President has been reading lately, that was sweet music indeed...
Similarly, Thomas suggests that death may not be the rattling, agonized event that humans fear. He is no stranger to the spectacle of death and its ravages. But he cites interesting evidence gathered from people who have slipped toward death before being rescued. Their testimony suggests a peaceful experience. When death is imminent, the brain apparently realizes that pain can no longer be useful as an alarm to spur escape. So the pain is turned off and replaced by a kind of blissful surrender. Thomas writes: "If I had to design an ecosystem in which creatures had to live...
...Perrier Crowd, and it's packed the Welles since the opening. Reminiscent of Cousin, Cousin in its playful attitude toward sexual improprieties, Get Out Your Handkerchiefs fails to develop its characters much behind their pretty faces. Solange, the heroine, has three lovers: two are buffoons, her husband and a stranger he recruited to cheer her up, and one, a thirteen-year-old boy, is sensitive to her need for friendship. The plot is inconsistent, the jokes are obvious, and the direction is heavy-handed. You might find this film a clever and copy French farce--if you're drunk...