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...just pucking around this morning, with a few random hockey thoughts to digest with your Wheaties...
From Fairfield Prep to the Atlantic Coast Conference to the IAB on Winthrop St., and perhaps on to France, runs the trail of the bouncing basketball of Jim Fitzsimmons. Presently, it has come to rest in occasional games of Nerf in Eliot House and random trips to the former fourthfloor haunt of his 964 career Crimson points...
...depend on his camera. The hallmarks of the original Persona are gone without trace--Bergman's loving concentration on the faces of the two woman, his split-screen sequences, his reminders that Persona is a film and not reality, conveyed by shots which include his cameras, himself, and random footage from his earlier movies. Finally, he burns up the celluloid itself, on screen, to bring this home to his viewers...
Thernstrom's research effort was gargantuan. Information from city directories, the U.S. Census, old tax records, among other sources was analyzed by computer. Where the mass of information was too great to be considered as a whole, he considered random samples of Boston residents and closely studied their careers and those of their children. The result is eminently readable, but also imparts an aura of impartiality that is missing from most non-quantitative social histories. Judgments concerning the fairness of social systems may vary considerably, but the degree of social mobility in a community is quantifiable. Thernstrom has made...
Still, when the theorizing becomes heavy, Farb knows how to entertain himself and his readers with a rich miscellany of random facts and provocative (if not always documented) opinions that spill beyond his outline...