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...reviewer who has begun to criticize the man. But the self-righteous student--still anxious for such an alliance--is not satisfied. The construction workers on girders are still throwing nails at the academics below. Meanwhile, doesn't Coleman cut a suspicious figure? He plunges into the lower-class welter, frolicking in ditches and finding new muscles in his back (and also finding himself), keeping a semi-stupid diary and publishing Blue-Collar Journal, warning us against any politics in ditches...
...readings from the transcripts by CBS newsmen taking the parts of the President (Barry Ser-afin), Dean (Bob Schieffer) and Haldeman (Nelson Benton). The trio stood behind 19th century lecterns like Chautauqua troupers and read tonelessly to avoid possibly inaccurate inflections. Nevertheless, they lent some human clarity to the welter of words...
...strangely pictorial sculpture: freestanding but often flat as a relief, sometimes unintelligible when walked round. The figures are meant to be seen from the front, as if drawn up on their massive bases beneath an imaginary proscenium arch. From the back they are apt to disintegrate into a welter of craggy texture and bronze lumps. They insist always on a specific remoteness from the viewer...
Included are approval of the final report of the Committee on Terms and Titles, which clarifies the fine distinctions between Harvard's confusing welter of titles, and a proposed change in the nominating procedure for this spring's Faculty Council election, reducing the number of sponsors needed for nomination to the council to five for non-tenured and ten for tenured Faculty members...
...subdued version of its naughtier British sisters. Its models are more or less clothed and the focus is on entertainment, sports and advice ("Let us make you a star") rather than scandal. Its layout is in the British popular mold: narrow columns, small body type, terse stories, a welter of breathless headlines, jumbled boxes and graphics-all suggesting an earthquake in the composing room. Once they get past the frenetic format, American readers may feel let down by the torpor of Star stories...