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Michael Massing

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A Film Only a Filmmaker Could Like

A PLAIN, solid-thinking, no-nonsense Swiss engineer visits a drab, small-town cafe to make a speech in his campaign for the


For Faculty It's Still Old Mood on Campus

On April 9, 1969, Franklin L. Ford, then Dean of the Faculty, was forced by members of SDS to leave


The Schlock Heard 'Round the World

T HE AGENDA for the Bicentennial is now becoming clear. President Ford's pilgrimage to Boston's Old North Church to Concord's


Soggy Suds

I N THE '60s, it was Hair, More than any other cultural production of the decade, it summed up in


The Wrongs of Spring

Those men and women consigned to drudge through their lives within the constraints imposed by an insular environment have often


Defense of the Indefensible

N OW THAT Watergate has been exhausted in its guises of scourge against malfeasance in high office, extripator of coporate


Chile: An Articulate Voice for the Military Junta

The ambassador from Chile looks a bit out of place, seated on a deep couch and sipping coffee in a


Lush Cemeteries, Parched Villages

A S A FLEDGING adolescent a few years back I attempted to allay my middle-class guilt by adopting a philosophy


Faculty Council Hears Proposal To Grant Students Certification

The Faculty Council last week heard a proposal to establish a program enabling undergraduates to obtain certification for teaching in