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...Julie Andrews; fourth is John Wayne-appearing among the Top Ten for a record 19th time. In fifth position is a newcomer, Clint Eastwood, whose made-in-Italy "Dollar" westerns were appropriately named. The sixth is Dean Martin; seventh, Steve McQueen; eighth, Jack Lemmon; ninth, Lee Marvin; and tenth, Elizabeth Taylor. There is no room at the top for slippage. Gone from last year's golden ten are Sean Connery, who dropped from fifth to sixteenth, and Richard Burton, who slipped from ninth to fifteenth...
...Sleep of Reason is the tenth of the Strangers and Brothers novels, Lord Snow's melancholy, quasi-autobiographical saga of the rise of Lewis Eliot from lower-middle-class obscurity to knighthood. In many of the previous novels, Sir Lewis' empirical eye focused acutely on the intricate and polished parquetry of the English Establishment as he proceeded through the corridors of power. In The Sleep of Reason, that same cool eye is cast on more amorphous matters as the author struggles with formulations about such things as free will, responsibility and human nature. Recently C. P. Snow informed...
...interested in student power any more as a question of doctrine, I presume Dean Ford is referring to those liberals, particularly in student government, who are frustrated by their inability to implement their reforms, and outraged by the secret dealings of faculty and administration committees. The committees on the Tenth House, and Mrs. Bunting's plans for Fortress Radcliffe are cases in point; so was the behavior of the Committee on Educational Policy during the ROTC crisis...
...transplants the children from The Manor in Poland to The Estate in America. Elsewhere in Europe, Sarah Gainham conducts what is left of her cast of Viennese characters from Night Falls on the City into the postwar era. C. P. Snow has achieved a double sequel of sorts: the tenth novel in his Strangers and Brothers series seems to be an offshoot of On Iniquity, his wife Pamela Hansford Johnson's recent moralistic account of the Manchester Moors murders. In Sir Charles' version of perversion, two lesbians butcher an eight-year...
Captain Pete Carter's ankle injury could prove more damaging to Harvard's prospects. Carter, who ranked tenth in the NCAA downhill last winter, fractured his ankle last summer while training in Chile, and the injury never healed properly. An operation, which could sideline Carter indefinitely, may be required to remove a floating bone chip...