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...criticism fails to shake Berger, now 76 and recently retired as a senior fellow in legal history at Harvard. "I've been accustomed to swimming upstream a good deal of my life," he says. Berger concedes it would be "utterly unrealistic" to expect the Supreme Court to reverse its host of 14th Amendment decisions. But tie wants the Justices to leave future cases involving busing, criminal law, obscenity, abortions, libel and voting rights to state courts and legislatures...
...sleepers like Easy Rider and Joe aroused serious doubts as to the future of the big budget, big studio-backed movie. Such doubts have long since faded away as the motion picture industry has reverted to its conventional production methods, and work like Short Eyes must once again swim upstream to gain widespread attention. A sleeper must now feature something special to succeed, and Young's new film regrettably comes up short in enough areas to safely predict it will not make much of a dent in the industry, artistically or financially...
Paul R. Shapiro '74, South House tutor of Astronomy and Physics, said yesterday, "The Pians have been swimming upstream on the South House improvement issue--they have spent a great deal of time negotiating for improvements and it's been difficult and time-consuming for them...
...years afterward, Cao's countrymen traded and established settlements near the river's mouth. But they did not go too far inland; 100 miles upstream lay a series of 32 cataracts now known as Livingstone Falls. A stretch of white water, appropriately named the Cauldron of Hell, stopped early explorers as effectively as if it were the edge of the earth...
...spectator, the Weeks, Anderson and Eliot Bridges provide the best vantage points to view the action. The boats will race upstream on the Cambridge side, so ideal positions will be close to the Cambridge shore-line...