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...resented the gossips' talk that, if she failed to appear in public for a few days, she was waiting at home for the black & blue marks of Carlos' annoyance to fade from her petal-soft skin. "I just can't make myself over in the Brazilian pattern," she decided, and divorced...
Food complaints fall easily into a cyclical pattern. First, the founding fathers insisted that all students be served at a common board. After 200 years of establishing a reputation for poor food, the University abandoned the Commons and let students fend for themselves around the square and in clubs. Agitation for a University-sponsored dining hall soon began and resulted in a voluntary commons at Memorial Hall in 1874. Support of this system finally waned, and in 1923 Memorial Hall was abandoned. Immediately pressure began for a good dining system. This movement ended in the present house system, which...
Thus the Dean's Office, because of its fear of merger of Harvard-Radcliffe student activities, has limited the students' own freedom of decision on the problem. Its pattern of action is identical to that shown by its reactions to the problem of post-war political tensions, bad debts, and public relations...
...This pattern has been for the Dean's Office to take on responsibilities which in the thirties were assumed to belong to the student groups. Tomorrow's editorial, the last in this series, will consider whether this assumption of responsibility--and the right to supervision and control which is derived from it--is a desirable one for Harvard...
...central character, a backwoods idealist who becomes a one-man state government, is hard-centered, soft-surfaced Willie Stark (Broderick Crawford). His life story is told in choppy, dramatic incidents, which give the movie a curious pattern-Stark at the football stadium, Stark haranguing a fairgrounds crowd, Stark bulldozing the legislators, Stark posing for cameramen with his estranged family. The small, disconnected scenes hit the eye with the repetitive impact of telephone poles seen from a fast train, and din the main character deep into the mind...