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Then again, the living characters seem hardly worthy of the honor. Louisa Hufstader's medieval matron is suitably doughty and prim, and Dan Jacobs as the chaplain manages to draw some laughs via his doddering devotion to his viol. But Win Hoover, in a pivotal role as the elder of...

Author: By Cheryl R. Devall, | Title: Air, Water, But Alas, No Fire | 12/6/1978 | See Source »

THE PROPOSALS outlined by Bowersock are indeed worthy of careful consideration by CUE and the Faculty. If Harvard wants to maintain its reputation as an institution of learning, it must not neglect the foundation of the University-- the College. Creating greater interaction among professors and students will unquestionably improve the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Teaching Reforms | 12/2/1978 | See Source »

Special, miniseries, big event: these are the most overused terms in television's absurd lexicon of hype. But in the 1978-79 season, when almost every prime-time show is labeled spectacular by the networks, one mini-series surely justifies the advance billing. That show is Roots: The Next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Return of Haley's Comet | 11/13/1978 | See Source »

Watership Down may not be the ideal rendering of a book in which a lot of people have a vested emotional interest, but it is a worthy addition to the classic tradition of screen animation. Like the great Disney pictures of the past, it is illuminated by a darkness and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bunny Business | 11/13/1978 | See Source »

A STRANGE little book, greatly flawed but tantalizingly good-groups of brilliant paragraphs sandwiched around prose that runs annoyingly flat. Tom McGuane jumped the stakes on himself; the epigram that begins the book is "The best epitaph a man can gain is to have accomplished daring deeds of valor against...

Author: By Joseph Dalton, | Title: The Caribbean Syndicalist Novel | 11/8/1978 | See Source »

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