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...vote later this semester. We are disappointed that an issue of such sweeping importance got its first hearing behind closed doors—without even a hint to the student body—and we have deep hesitations regarding many of the ill-conceived details present or absent in the proposal itself. But we are not willing to dismiss it out of hand. We support this referendum in principle because a vote of all students should determine the council’s position on decisions of such significance, and we hope the full council does as well when it takes...
...driven by a lengthy violin opener that leads into Byrne’s description of a happy day, when “beautiful angels appear at my side / corporate sponsors will act as my guide.” Any fears that the cynicism of the Talking Heads would be absent here be rested...
Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71, who was absent at the initial CCL meeting where H Bomb was approved, said at yesterday’s meeting that a magazine fostering “serious discussion of sexuality” would be “entirely reasonable,” though the appearance of nude photographs would be “objectionable...
...Walk absent-mindedly along the tree-dotted medians and you’ll be hard pressed to see even a hint of its presence, even though it’s all around you. Focus only on the packaged version of the Upper East Side presented in commercials for Cadillac or, more appropriately, Buick’s Park Avenue and you’ll miss it entirely. Peer below the green awnings that dominate the sidewalks and into the marble lobbies and you’ll catch a glimpse, though you still won?...
Aitken highlights historical errors as well; for example, despite the extreme unlikelihood that Jesus would have spoken any Latin, he converses with Pontius Pilate fluently in the film. Greek, which was spoken commonly in Jerusalem at the time, is completely absent. Additionally, Gibson misrepresents the ethnic make-up of Jerusalem and greatly heightens the role of the so-called “Jewish mob,” which calls for Jesus’s death. According to Aitken, Gibson also fictionally contextualizes Judas’s story, adding a scene of his harassment by a group of morphing, devil-like...