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Charles S. Whitman
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From Russia With Love
If anyone in Harvard Square hasn't heard of James Bond, he must be the all-time champion Lamont hibernator or chem
H.M.S. Pinafore
Are you tired of your newspaper with its lockout and stall-in reports? Tired of TV's British satire and hillbilly corn?
The Ceremony
The inconsistency of a brutal penal code in an enlightened society has long troubled civilized men from the days of
Sweeney Todd
Sweeney Todd is like a mediocre Victorian novel. Filled to overflowing with weird characters and wild situations, the play nonetheless
The Elusive Corporal
From Jean Renoir we expected more. In his 1938 masterpiece, The Grand Illusion, Renoir established the pattern for future prison
The Balcony
Genet's Balcony is now a movie. Aficianadoes of the author will be horrified at the amount of revision Ben Maddow
Eliot Triumphs in Crew Competition; Winthrop Runner-Up, Quincy Third
The Eliot crew glided to an easy victory in the final house race, held yesterday over a mile course in
Eighth Day of the Week
Eighth Day of the Week is another in the long series of Loeb Experimental near-misses. This view of life in
The Island
The Island is a film with a realistic and simple story, well-executed by a superb photographer. Unfortunately it becomes as
Mr. Arkadin
The minor flaws in all but one of Orson Welles' extraordinary films are particularly maddening because they are unnecessary. Since
Dorothy Gish
Dorothy Gish, like her sister Lilian, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and Charlie Chaplin, was a matinee idol in the golden
More on Seymour
Many of us who read and loved The Catcher in the Rye in the tender years of adolescence are puzzled
In The Golden Prime
In the Golden Prime is a sort of cafe society Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Each progresses at length through
Term of Trial
Term of Trial is the latest in the "slice of treacle" series of British movies: each drips with middle-class realism,
Tunes of Glory
Two superb performances are the sole merit of the overlong and confusing Tunes of Glory, but they make the entire
