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...LITTLE ROMANCE Directed by George Roy Hill Screenplay by Allan Burns...
...lovers who are just 13. He is in delightful fettle and creates one classic bit, a gasping fit while reading a newspaper. Yet this is one latter-day Olivier film that has more going for it than its star. Director George Roy Hill (Butch Cassidy, The Sting) and Screenwriter Allan Burns (cocreator of TV's original Mary Tyler Moore Show) have constructed a romantic comedy that, for all its contrivances, offers an indecent amount of emotional and comic satisfaction...
Shils also blames his fellow academics for adopting Caesar's goals while forgetting their own calling. When the University of California at Davis denied admission to white Medical School Applicant Allan Bakke, Shils argues, the school placed claims to social justice above fidelity to intellectual criteria-thus losing all justification for "academic autonomy...
...minority students, the Stanford Medical School abolished a special admissions committee that processed minority applications. Students fear a further decline in black enrollment at the graduate level, down from 256 in 1973 to 183 this year. But the Supreme Court's decision supporting white Medical School Applicant Allan Bakke has discouraged protest. "Sign carrying would be sort of after the fact now," says one Stanford student. "I guess we'll just have to see how the new plan works...
...central figure of The Hadrian Ransom (Putnam; 275 pages; $9.95) wins this year's award for Most Unusual Kidnapee: Pope Hadrian IX. The holy heist in Allan Duane's psychological thriller has been planned by three disgruntled Americans and Rosella Asti, daughter of Italy's Ambassador to Washington. While the whole civilized world weeps and prays, the intricately plotted caper goes as smoothly as a sacrament-until the Red Brigades horn in on the action and the $4 million ransom money. The hero in the end is il Papa, a man of great energy, guile and charity...