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...seems that those most opposed to Derek Bok & Co. know them the best; after all, what is an administrator without a crisis to administrate? As long as the bounds of acceptable conduct are adhered to, the occasional political protests or marches serve to show the idealism of Harvard youth--and feed the self-importance of University Hall...
...time for a university education. She needs to stop being 19. "At the moment I don't have much to impart to the world, and I wish this attention would come at a time when I did," she says. Reminded that when she has years, she will wish for youth, this winning young woman agrees, and adds gravely, "It is so badly designed, isn't it, this whole process...
...Tanen, president of the motionpicture group at Paramount, calls John Hughes "the Steven Spielberg of youth comedy." Fair enough: Hollywood has always been a town that rewards arrested adolescence and those who can profitably memorialize it. If E.T. and Raiders of the Lost Ark seem made for children of all ages, from four to 14, then Sixteen Candles provides their older brothers and sisters with answers to the question: Is there life after junior high? Hughes' first film as writer-director is, sure, a sentimental fantasy with just enough wild-party footage to keep the Porky's crowd from nodding...
...coast of southern France during the mid-1920s. The sun is strong, the water clean, the food good and true. Best of all, the hotel Grau du Roi is a fine place to be a writer named David Bourne, honeymooning and working on a story of a youth and his father tracking a killer elephant in the African bush...
...longer believe that we can remake the world. Instead we adapt to it and act cautiously, because we have much more to lose. We have our careers. In the booming economy of the '60s, the affluent youth's greatest concern about a career was how to avoid one. A career was part of the System, within which success and exploitation, work and war, were inextricably linked. ("Work! Study! Get Ahead! Kill!" we used to chant at demonstrations.) Also, embarking on a career meant accepting the constraints of adulthood. I thought if I didn't settle down, I could stay young...