Word: aspects
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...unfurls. And unfurls. For 21 hours Little Big Man turns the tableaux on nearly every aspect of Western man. Thomas Berger's panoramic novel owed its salinity to an immediate relative, Huckleberry Finn, from which it ransacked idiom and hyperbole by the chapterful. Like Huck, young Jack had no social insight; he accepted violence and duplicity the way he regarded sleet and fire−as aspects of earthly life. The film happily preserves the chronicle's innocence, if not its exact text...
That was "mau-mauing." Chameleon-voiced as usual, and still given to Homeric catalogues and hang-ten metaphors, Wolfe inhabits an imaginary mau-mau character as he gleefully recalls some of the finer techniques. First, aspect: "You go down there with your hair stickin' out!" Second, mien: "Don't say nothing. You just glare." Then, tactics−which include bringing along some ringer Samoans who all look ten feet tall. One of Wolfe's master mau-mauers, like some Pied Piper of litterbugs, threatens to devastate city hall at the head of a horde of kids...
...interesting technical aspect to the meet is that it will be scored for each team, like three individual dual meets. Most quadrangular matches produce one first place winner among the four teams. But in this meet Harvard will essentially be playing the three schools separately...
...cover story this week deals with a particularly poignant aspect of the war, yet one unusually difficult to report: the U.S. prisoners in North Viet Nam. From Saigon, Correspondent James Willwerth cabled that he was personally convinced that there had been no security leak on the abortive Son Tay raid: "Most military and intelligence people in Saigon simply weren't given the details of the air strikes or the commando raid. They hadn't seen the script." In Washington, Correspondent William Mader, who has followed the plight of the prisoners all along, talked with concerned Government officials...
...guess is that at least ten per cent of the total number of university students will participate in some aspect of the program," Simpkins said. He declined to predict when the program would begin...