Word: wolfing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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McKinney is quick to agree. "Some faculty don't take enough interest, because it hasn't been particularly necessary in the past," he says. "It's a problem of making the faculty aware that things just aren't the same...They think you're crying wolf. They think a Harvard degree makes the statistics non-applicable." McKinney plans to spend part of the nest few months reminding the faculty of its responsibility in placing students...
With an introduction, notes and bibliography by LEONARD WOLF Art by SATTY...
...Instead, Count Dracula has become the Western world's most durable ghoul. There are Dracula dolls, songs, comic books and histories-proving the existence of a 15th century tyrant dubbed Dracul (dragon). Vampire movies have been made almost since the dawn of cinema and, according to Editor Leonard Wolf, there are now more than 200 Draculoid film titles, ranging from the silent Nosferatu to the ethnic exploitation flick Blackula...
...other hand," writes Editor Wolf, a professor of English who once taught a course on Dracula at San Francisco State University, "from its pages there rise images so dreamlike and yet so imperative that we experience them as ancient allegories. Everywhere one looks, there flicker the shadows of primordial struggles; the perpetual tension between the dark and the light; the wrestling match between Christ and Satan; and finally, the complex allegories of sex: sex in all its unimaginable innocence, or sex reeking with the full perfume of the swamp. And all these urgencies are seen or sensed through...
...corrupt aristocrat moves painfully by day. At night, of course, he is able to change from man to bat to wolf to fog. The human characters who have been hunting Dracula in the light now lie abed, weak with doubt, receptive to phantoms. A winged shape flutters at the casement-ludicrous as a plot device, but classically suggestive as an embodiment of dread...