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...Under the Influence is a tragic love story." Perhaps the crux of the movie is the scene where Mabel's husband, Nick, yields to outside pressures and agrees to commit her to a mental institution. Mabel tries to defend herself: "I always understood you and you always understood me--till death do us part, Nick...
Though Schuller decided to become a minister as a five-year-old Iowa farm boy, and was later ordained by the Reformed Church in America, his religion business did not take off till he arrived in California two decades ago. He had little more than a $500 grant from his denomination and a simple credo: "Find a need and fill it, find a hurt and heal it." The hurt, he reasoned, was greatest among agnostic transients flooding the West...
Byron also survives his Missolonghi fever in a wicked imagining by Harold Nicholson, who in his essay has the poet fumble on till 1854-as nothing less than King George I of Greece, "an obese little man descending the steps of the Crystal Palace on his wooden leg, supporting himself on his famous umbrella, and clasping a huge red handkerchief in the other hand." The wooden leg has replaced the clubfoot of Byron's dashing early years, which the poet-King lost, along with all vestiges of poetic vision, while fighting ineptly against the Turks near Lepanto...
...present proposal for meatless days places a referendum on the issue after spring break, but why wait till then? Could not a referendum be held during the of February 3, before meatless days are instituted? What harm could come of a referendum held before the policy is effected? Holding a referendum after the fact is tantamount to a dictatorship for the months prior to that vote. Since CHUL obviously agrees that the matter merits, some sort of referendum, there can be no other explanation for its action than that it hopes undergraduates will be hulled into a state of complacency...
...school diplomas in developed countries. The existing Teheran affiliate of the Harvard Business School gets its share of the bad marks, too. Part of the funds for it were raised at Iranian "charity functions," where members of the royal family lined up the wealthiest guests and stared at them till they contributed...