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...local police to restore order to Harvard Yard. Fourth, the essay describes the sporadic and occasionally radical involvement of faculty and students in the political affairs of the nation. In this regard Lipset traces the origins of SDS to early socialist movements on campus at the turn of the twentieth century...
...fact that they did worse things than any movies they imagined could show. Their successors, though some still have tinges of the old craziness (Frank Yablans, just-fired head of Paramount, wants to be President of the United States--It Can Happen Here) are essentially businessmen. Every studio but Twentieth Century Fox has been acquired by a conglomerate, and the products show it. You could see it Tuesday night on the show. Francis Ford Coppola, accepting the Best Picture Award for God-father II opened his speech, "When Charlie Bluhdorn came to me with the idea for a second part...
...Charles Eliot Norton Chair of Poetry is that there isn't any history. The official history of Harvard by Samuel Eliot Morison doesn't contain a single word about the lectureship. That's because it was founded too recently, in 1926, and for Harvard any event in the twentieth century isn't distant enough to be historical. Even E.J. Kahn's popular work, Harvard, Through Change and Through Storm, fails to mention the Norton lectures. And the Harvard archives doesn't contain a great deal of material on the subject either. It was as collection of the manuscripts and most...
...latest picture is, as Variety might put it, stinko. Not only that, it is expensive, personalized stinko. Worst of all, this leaden dirigible dragged some very talented people down with it, including Cole Porter, a hard man to sink. When a friend of mine stole the script from Twentieth Century Fox and lent it to me, the two of us sat rocking on chairs for the better part of an afternoon rubbing our eyes and groaning, "It's awful. Awful." It was a terrible script, and it is hard to see what Bogdanovich was trying...
...United States and increasing American difficulties in "managing" the supply of oil from the region have drastically increased the danger of a direct U.S. intervention in the Middle East. Morever, no one needs to be reminded that the American economy is in crisis. And a cursory examination of twentieth century U.S. history will show that the consistent answer of the government and the corporations for economic crisis has been war abroad...