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...should not happen here. Harvard's proposed budget for 1975-76 must be made public this year before it goes to the Corporation for approval sometime in May. And to forestall the possibility of an unpleasant surprise like th one at Brown, a permanent mechanism should be devised to involve students and faculty in the setting of budget priorities...
...another miserable little picture called White Dawn,with Timothy Bottoms and Martin Balsam. The idea here was some sort of cultural relativism--19th century sailors shipwrecked in the Arctic, taken in by an Eskimo community. First scene the natives kill their dinner, ripping off seal flesh and tearing it with their teeth, practically drooling blood. We watch it in graphic detail. Later we learn that despite their foreign ways they are gentle people--just different--and that they have free love inside the igloos, also moderately graphic. The dinner is supposed to disgust you; the sex is supposed...
...Th effect the GSA action will have on court proceedings to release drafts of the impact statement developed by C.E. Maguire Inc., the GSA's consulting firm for the project, is uncertain...
...Gaelic. He notes that the dialect appeared after a wave of Irish immigrants settled in Brooklyn in the late 19th century. Moreover, Griffith finds that the trademark Brooklyn diphthong oi also appears in many Gaelic words; taoiseach (leader) and barbaroi (barbarians), for example. He also points out that the th sound is absent in both Gaelic and Brooklynese, in which it becomes a hard / or d (as in da dame wid tin legs). Some classic Brooklyn expressions, he adds, come directly from the Gaelic: whudda card (joker) is a corruption of caird (an itinerant tramp); put da kibosh...
Aldiss has always written with gusto. This book is not just an exciting, macabre story. Using a verbal counterpoint -19th century literary style against the curt phrases of the 21st-the author has brought off a convincing interpretation of Frankenstein for today...