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John Briston Sullivan, the Cambridge real estate developer who threatened the University last year with his building-on-stilts proposal, is planning to sink a tremendous, ugly barge in the Charles River just below M.I.T...
...Essex; United Artists). Man stands at the edge of space like a child at the edge of the sea, skipping sophisticated, multimillion-dollar pebbles that sink out of sight. What man needs is a ship that he can sail on the new ocean and bring safely back to port. Four years ago, he produced the first crude model of such a ship, a rowboat of the infinite called...
...Spain, that only a revolt of the masses can dissolve its calcified social structure. But after the revolution, what? Viridiana witlessly abandons what is good in her religion along with what is bad, and the final scene suggests that she will become the mistress of Jorge, that Spain will sink into mere materialism. The film ends on Jorge's grin, as thin and nasty as a razor's edge...
...each movement of the piece. The Radcliffe Society had consistent trouble making its entrances, but the chorus, though occasionally bottom-heavy, preserved the viscous fluidity of Lasso's style. The men's chorus, by the way, has fine basses, and exploits them well; but sometimes instead of stabilizing they sink the ship...
...austerity. In the campaign against smugglers, twelve so far have been sentenced to death. When told by harbor police that the smugglers' hot-rod launches can outrun government boats. General Park offered advice: "When it is clear that the smuggler will outrun you, open fire and sink him. If they are caught, smugglers are going to be executed anyway. It doesn't make any difference if they are drowned at sea or shot on land...