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But then we tend to blame Harvard too much for our difficulties. For honesty's sake, a few other rituals that are hardly of Harvard's doing must be mentioned. Around New England, sex is, as they say, pursued with a passion. Every weekend, Dartmouth boys, rubbers firmly in hand...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: The Year of the Freshman: an annual social event thrown for 1200 selected students, with lifelong repercussions | 9/18/1969 | See Source »

Sir: The other side of the Heidi story [Nov. 29]: Small town, two channels, football on both of them. Rotten weather, ten children, nine of them running, leaping, screaming and fighting. Baby can't walk, thank God. Father in absolute coma, doesn't see, hear anything but football...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 13, 1968 | 12/13/1968 | See Source »

But Huston simply fails to give either Bogart or Hepburn enough to do in The African Queen. The romance pastoral is established, but only at the expense of character development: Huston piles close-ups of Bogart and Hepburn on top of one another, all impeccably framed by Cardiff, all suggesting...

Author: By Tim Hunter, | Title: The African Queen | 3/16/1968 | See Source »

Although gout is no longer caricatured as a comical disease caused by high living and swilling port wine, it is still regarded as an affliction almost exclusively of adult men, many of whom like to think that it is associated with above-average intellectual powers. Maybe so. But the latest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Metabolism: Gout & the Missing Enzyme | 2/2/1968 | See Source »

While the Marxist polemics are dated-who keeps servants, anyway?-the psychological tensions of the play are intact. Actor Roger Hamilton is a bristling porker of a Puntila, rutting, grunting and swilling his way through the part, but Michael Fairman's Matti is a trifle too stiff and condescending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: A Passion for Survival | 4/21/1967 | See Source »

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