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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Amid the moral uproar surrounding the Klitgaard report, the Crimson has provided us with an article that surely dwarfs Klitgaard in arrogance, specious argument, and even racism--Selwyn Cudjoe's "Ideological Trick-Bag." This quasi-Marxist analysis pales in comparison with the sober and informed exchange between Carl Gershman and Dr. Kenneth Clark it sets out to condemn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Racism? | 11/24/1980 | See Source »

...mind, slowly settling to form the horror he cannot confront. The struggle between Dysart and Alan (and their private bouts with their respective neuroses and psychoses) is at the core of Equus, giving the drama its chess-match tension as two fierce wills clash and two magnificent intellects trick and torment the vulnerable souls possessing them. Sadism and compassion feed on each other as Dysart and Alan peer, with frightening perception, into one another's heart of darkness, at once attracted and repelled by what they...

Author: By Jacob V. Lamar, | Title: Equine Delight | 11/20/1980 | See Source »

...goals led the squad last year. Olson picked up the team's only hat trick in the 6-6 tie against Yale, and scored twice in a game three other times. Small, but fast, tought and willing to dig, Cleary says, "Hopefully his scoring touch will rub off on others...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Faces to Watch | 11/20/1980 | See Source »

Some of One Trick Pony's scenes are so good (Simon and his band playing a game of "dead rock stars," Simon and his young son [Michael Pearlman] playing baseball or shaving, Simon struggling to be polite to his crass producer and record company president) they stand out like lighthouses in a fog. Unfortunately, the plot is loose while Simon's character (an aging rock star striving to keep his band and music afloat in a changing scene) is so passive and wishy-washy I wanted to shake him. His presence on screen is appealing but not powerful enough...

Author: By Judith Sims, | Title: One Trick Pony | 11/18/1980 | See Source »

Observed U.S. Team Manager Fer dinand Metz, a veteran of Manhattan's Plaza Hotel and the late lamented Le Pavilion, and now an executive of the HJ. Heinz Co.: "We are all here to advance the art if possible, to learn from one another, to pick up a trick or two that may save us a little money or reduce wastage in a business where economics gets more important every day. And to win a few medals, of course." Like U.S. winemakers in international competition, the team showed that North American cuisine, drawing on a bounty of natural resources...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: A Victual Victory for the U.S. | 11/17/1980 | See Source »

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