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LOOSE ENDS At Circle in the Square, Paul and Susan fall in love on the beach in Bali. A peace corps volunteer who has spent two years teaching natives to build latrines, Paul wants to go home to a real job: teaching English at a Philadelphia private school. Susan, a young adventuress, breathlessly announces in a raspberry voice that she and the world have not yet been properly introduced. And so they part, this tall, dark scholar and this manic urchin...
...distance between the director and the screen persona is exactly the same as the distance it flatteringly allows the viewer to place between his real and everyday persons. It licenses us to believe that our everyday behavior doesn't truly reflect our character, which is altogether deeper, more astute, suffering and sensitive. The procedure is increasingly cosy and conspiratorial-we go to a Woody Allen film knowing exactly what to expect, and sure enough there it is, a flabby shapeless dish, occasionally spicy, but altogether sagging and apologetic...
Lesley College officials denounced the moratorium yesterday. They are planning to turn a two-family house into student housing early this summer, and a moratorium "could cause us real problems in the early stages" of the job, Robert Lewis, executive vice president of the college, said yesterday...
...anonymous-quote disease is spreading to business reporting, where inside information is bound to be profitable to somebody. So when reporters are blocked by what they think to be a company's official evasions, they often seek the real dope from securities analysts and other market watchers, who follow an industry's doings with sharpened curiosity and considerable knowledge. But the danger and the injustice of using anonymous sources is well illustrated by a New York Times story of Nov. 14. about the appointment of John J. Nevin as the new president of Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. Earlier...
Harvard looked impressive, but as Stone said, "The real schedule begings Tuesday at Brown...