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...writers, producers, and the cast of Leaders of Tomorrow have succeeded in bringing the school to the stage. They have wrestled the Harvard experience, thinly veiled, into episodes in the lives of five students at Ivy League University. They neatly sidestep the first pitfall of the project: defining its scope. Equally ingenious in defining its form, their answer to the theatrical question, "What is Harvard?" becomes a cohesive production of songs, dance numbers, skits and monologues...
UNINTENTIONALLY, then, it seems, the students at Ivy League University fail to cover new ground in examining the psyches of college students, especially Harvard students. The scope of the roles is a bit too narrow and the students do not venture far into their peers' cerebelli, but simply present their own personalities and perspectives, guarding them jealously as real Harvard students must and do--resisting the inevitable infiltration of conflicting points of view, modifying their positions just enough to convince observers that they have indeed changed, and that they needn't attempt further to influence their thinking...
...Kung's latest works, such as 'Why does God Exist?' deal with issues affecting the broad scope of Christianity. He is one of the most important theologians of our time, and for this reason we wanted him to speak at Harvard," Jane Redmount, an official at the Divinity School, said yesterday...
...increase in "the funding and scope" of Third World and women recruitment programs "in all sectors of the University...
...torment. He turns his attention from suffering to death and from death to all his old themes: sex, religion, beauty, driving, California and cooking. It's predictable comedy the worst kind. Allen seems to be questioning both the limits to his own talent (which once seemed limitless) and the scope of a single man's life (which once seemed immeasurable). But Peggy Lee didn't need 72 minutes of celluloid to sing "Is That All There...