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...There is a certain vindictiveness about the Slack-Porter argument," says Dean K. Whitla, director of the Office of Instructional Research and Evaluation and the longest standing member of Harvard's admissions committee. Whitla, who has enjoyed periodic research support from ETS, made a statement in 1962 that Slack and Porter now take pleasure in quoting: "If this thesis [that SAT scores can be increased by an intensive tutoring program] were to be proved true, its proof would challenge the validity and essential purposes for which the test was constructed." Today, Whitla says, Harvard is continuing its standard practice...
PRIEST OF LOVE is undoubtedly the longest two-hour movie ever made. Billed as razzle-'em, dazzle-'em intimate portrait of D.H.Lawrence (lan McKellen) and his German wife. Freida (Janet Suzman), the movie is simply a series of bangs that end with a whimper. Director Christopher Miles has apparently confused action with sex, character with caricature. With Priest of Love, he achieves the impossible. He reduces the pathos of Lawrence last years, spent in exile and pain, to a cheap thrill. Lawrence and Freida leave England soon after the British censor. Herbert G. Muskett (John Gielgud) publicly burns available copies...
UMass has always been thorn in the Crimson's side. In 1978, Harvard, riding the crest of a two-season, fifteen game winning streak--still the longest in the team's history--lost to the Minutemen in a 2-1 heartstopper...
While he won't win any award nominations for this one (the footloose and fancy image lives on), he touches his audience with the same sentiment and humor that distinguished The Longest Yard, The End, and, especially Starting Over...
...Columbia-Penn game, sophomore quarterback John Witkowski completed 12 of 23 passes, including one for a touchdown, to lead the Lions to victory. The win for Coach Bob Naso's squad ended the nation's third longest major college losing streak...