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...absurd importance of certificates, permissions, licenses and ratings in all our lives, the pursuit of success not for fulfillment but only for achievement-these are the subjects of The Paper Chase, a movie of some incidental pleasures and insights and a great deal of silliness. Director-Writer Bridges (The Baby Maker) uses a typically tense year at Harvard Law School as a metaphor for the reflexive mania of competition, trying to squeeze into a school term a full complement of crosscurrents in the American national character. His designs for his story (adapted from a novel by John Jay Osborn...
...PAPER CHASE...
...game will be played at 2 p.m. on Dartmouth's Chase Field...
...naked eye. Nonetheless, it has long been called Lakha Manta (The Gateway to Hell) by the Indians, for reasons they are unable to explain. More tantalizing still, Michanowsky found that among some lowland tribes this humdrum part of the sky is known as the Region of the Chase of the Celestial Ostrich, a bird revered in Indian mythology. According to Indian lore, the ostrich was driven across the sky by two voracious dogs and finally killed in the constellation Vela. Michanowsky also learned of some possible connections between Indian star lore and the site of the annual orgy. In Indian...
Crusader Newfield is particularly irked by the way Hirsch raised money. The Chase Manhattan Bank was one of the large investors. Newfield is "troubled by the presence of Rockefeller money in a magazine that pretends to be liberal or radical." (A principal owner of Newfield's paper is Millionaire S. Carter Burden.) Newfield also accuses Hirsch of failing to give the contributing editors-who are to receive shares of stock in addition to fees-a full explanation of the company's financial scaffolding and of special arrangements made with Breslin and a literary agent representing some...