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Harvard's total annual income approaches $200 million; of that, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences is allotted $58 million. Every year, moreover, approximately $15 million of the annual income is not spent at all, but appears to be plowed directly back into the endowment without ever reaching any of...

Author: By Carole Adams and Steve Bornstein, S | Title: The Graduate Students' Case | 3/28/1972 | See Source »

FINALLY, we must condemn Dean Jones for his inexcusable failure to consult the graduate students before announcing the termination of the STS program. His explanation that there was a "problem of time" is simply unconvincing. Jones's disrespect for the rights and interests of the students affected by this decision...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Support the Union | 3/20/1972 | See Source »

Scott the doctor makes his decision, but it involves more than just himself: should he save scores of patients or should he first save himself and Rigg by fleeing with her to Mexico? With about the profundity of a television script-Chayefsky is a veteran TV writer-Hospital examines such...

Author: By Esther Dyson, | Title: Doctor Scott | 2/28/1972 | See Source »

The text might have been taken from Eleanor Rigby: "All the lonely people, where do they all come from?/ All the lonely people, where do they all belong?" Seymour Moskowitz (Seymour Cassel) is a manic parking-lot attendant who tries to meet girls by the unconvincing and always unsuccessful expedient...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: An Anodyne to Loneliness | 12/27/1971 | See Source »

The backdrop for Centerville is so unconvincing that the actors frequently talk about going over to the fake bar to get a fake beer. The Mothers live perpetually in fake motel rooms, where they have long moral battles about whether or not to steal the fake bath towels. The town...

Author: By Andy Klein, | Title: 200 Motels | 11/2/1971 | See Source »

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