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...random sampling of Cliffies received letters asking them to volunteer to come to Hilles Library early this week for 20 minutes to fill out the questionnaire. The responses will remain anonymous, and the conclusions will not now be made public...
...Eliot and others. Such were the distractions that some of the calendars came out with no June and two Julys, or no January and two Februaries. Rand, which is busy plotting America's future course in dozens of areas, had a programmed explanation. "It was a random collating error," said a spokesman, which resulted in only one mistake in every 450 calendars...
...film is at its best in evoking the school's atmosphere and the exuberance of the heroes' visions of revolution. If. . . is also very funny and pathetically sad on occasion. The random sloppiness involves the ambiguity of some of the images (notably, a sudden fetus) and the lack of followthrough with some of the characters (a "new boy" who dominates the film's first five minutes, a new and seemingly benevolent headmaster introduced later...
...Wisconsin Federal judge has said he sees a serious gap between the random selection ordered by President Nixon and the actual result of the drawing...
...fall shows also suggest a second theme: just how people are seeing here, now. The solipsism reaches hysteria at the Biennale de Paris, which proclaims itself the "manifestation of the young artists," meaning those under 35. The preoccupation this year was style, for its own sake. Noted in a random walk: a Parisian who signs himself Sibaja has sculpted two prizefighters out of red ice who bleed slowly into buckets under their boxing ring while a tape recorder plays crowd screams. They take a week to die. Minimal sculpture everywhere, reaching even into the Portuguese delegation. Pushbutton and wind...