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...best recollection, our editorials have never disputed that there are a great many bright people at Harvard. Nor have we argued that Harvard should limit its consideration to SAT scores, or even to SAT scores and class ranks. We simply insist that Harvard stop granting unwarranted special treatment to those who have a good jump shot or a Harvard pedigree. We also insist that Harvard be completely forthright about these policies--a request that has yet to be granted...
...maid nips at the cooking sherry (must speak to her about that). If their son makes eagle scout and one of his sisters pledges Kappa, does it really matter that the other daughter decamps for Greenwich Village and a scattershot involvement with "the arts" that her parents will never understand...
...classes, flirts momentarily with divorce, psychoanalysis and the ideas of Thorstein Veblen. But whether the Bridges are confronting a tornado that Walter refuses to let interrupt dinner, their children's romantic and sexual hubbubs, a friend's suicide or simply the long silences of their own relationship, there is never any question about who is in charge around here...
...Just as this movie refuses to impose a thrusting dramatic structure on a story that is all incident, it also refuses to adopt anachronistic sociological attitudes toward its people. It retains novelist Connell's tone -- one of ironic compassion -- and sustains as well the perfect pitch of his voice, never going flat or sharp. That is to say it neither falls into easy sentiment nor strains for cheap satire. Instead it grants the Bridges the dignity that they -- and most people of their time, place and (upper middle) class -- worked so hard to achieve and that is usually denied them...
...purchasing mailing lists, constitute an invasion of their privacy. They are concerned that solicitations that continue even after a recipient hangs up can have serious consequences for fire stations and emergency rooms, which the dialers can reach unintentionally. What irks people most is having to pay for solicitations they never asked for. Those with car phones and pagers are charged for every minute they use a telephone line, whether or not they initiated the call, and fax-machine owners pay up to 10 cents a sheet for the special paper the machines use to print out messages, including ones they...