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...despite his youth, Bundy did not disappoint during his eight-year tenure as dean. He was responsible for creating the advanced-standing program, and Harvard officials credit him for successfully encouraging more students to pursue honors...
...Jersey Turnpike when he noticed the toll taker's badge and asked, "Hey, are you the Tommy Facenda who sang High School U.S.A.?") Bennett opposed the Vietnam War, but he respected the men who served there. He grew sickened by much of what he saw at Harvard: privileged youth skipping class to smoke dope and watch soap operas, and twisting the antiwar movement into an attack on America. Like another former Democrat, Ronald Reagan, Bennett thought less that he was turning right than that his party was turning crazy...
...outweigh any serious intent Begley might have to air the subject of genteel anti-Semitism. Schmidt, like most people, has an active Them-and-Us reflex, and his real biases are generational. He grouses dolefully about the slide in professional standards, the decline of civility and the thoughtlessness of youth. In what could be called a novel of bad manners, Begley again demonstrates that he can reveal the complexities of society and personality with a clear eye and graceful style. Schmidt may not live up to today's strict standards of political correctness, but he more than meets the requirements...
Anders' one good idea was to paper the movie with music--not from the period, but newly written by '60s veterans (Burt Bacharach, Joni Mitchell and, oddly, Goffin himself) and a few younger ringers (Elvis Costello, Los Lobos, Sonic Youth) working in the old spirit. These fine tunes recall what was best about that era and point to what this movie should have been. Radio...
...Absolutely," he said. He explained that young people don't truly accept the inevitability of mortality--even if, as in his case and the case of Bob Dole, they spend part of their youth being shot at by hostile forces. Once the years have done some persuading on that issue, he said, you tend to put more value on life of any kind...