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What we lack in numbers we also seem to lack in spirit. There are wakes in Eastern Massachusetts with more enthusiam than most Harvard athletic events. We all know why this is true: Harvard is not a group experience; Henry David Throe, Class of 1837, not Teddy Roosevelt, Class of 1880, prevails. Puritans simply don't cheer...
...AIDS (Philadelphia), the Nazi Holocaust (Schindler's List), Vietnam (Heaven and Earth) and plain old age (Wrestling Ernest Hemingway). It's apt that the Cardiac Pack is led by My Life, for its writer-director is Bruce Joel Rubin, screenwriter for the postmortem love story Ghost and the death-throe fantasy Jacob's Ladder -- the Jack Kevorkian of '90s Hollywood...
...shut. The film is canny enough to reveal the horrors of underage incarceration in Brazil before it turns Pixote and his comrades loose on a jag of snatching purses, rolling drunks, courting death. Thus it suggests that society is a prison of the spirit and freedom is the death throe of society: suicidal anarchy. Whenever the film focuses on Pixote's face-solemn, premoral, scuffed like a club fighter's-it seems a snapshot of an infant convict at the end of his last mile...
Home of the Heave. Yet it is Mailer who most impressively comes to grips with the convention in passages of intuition and eloquence. With his customary sense of apocalyptic drama, he declares that "the country was in a throe, a species of eschatological heave." It may seem obvious, but Mailer's writing overcomes the triteness inherent in describing hog-butchering Chicago as the setting for confrontation; he succeeds in connecting the cries of the bloodied hippies to the eerie death wail of the gutted cattle. "Chicago was a town where nobody could ever forget how the money was made...
Thirty-one faculty members and students from the Boston area will discuss the Administration's policy in Vietnam at a 12-hour long Boston University teach-in tonight. Among them will be throe members of the Harvard Faculty: Barrington Moor Jr., lecturer on Sociology; Stephen Thernstrom, instructor in History and Literature; and Mark Mancall, research fellow in East Asian Studies...