Word: adela
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Night. A train bearing more modest English visitors, Adela Quested and Mrs. Moore, chuffs and hoots across the plains. They are on their way to visit the latter's son in Chandrapore, where he serves the British raj as city magistrate. Adela, plain but secretly a spirited young woman, contemplates marrying him. But in her berth she dreams vaguely of adventure, of discovering what she likes to call "the real India." Outside, the real India broods enigmatically, and we see the train from another of the subcontinent's perspectives, as a tiny toy almost lost at its feet...
...songs, dogs, hats, chandeliers, white lilies, waiting taxis and one adorably solemn child. Dispensing with period photos or newsreel clips in which the historical John Reed might compete with Beatty's Jack, the film instead takes testimony from 32 "witnesses"-old friends and colleagues like Henry Miller, Adela Rogers St. Johns and Rebecca West, who offer a Kane-like kaleidoscope of memories. The rest of Reds is a nonstop narrative that climaxes with skyrockets over Red Square and finds its denouement in a lovely Liebestod. The script, by Beatty and British Playwright Trevor Griffiths (with help, reportedly, from Elaine...
Committee members are hesitant to identify areas other than admissions policies that might contribute to such perceptions. Adela Cepeda '80, one of the committee members, said the doubts may stem from what she called "socialization effects." It's not that minority students are not as intellectually competent, Cepeda said, but that they "are conditioned to think that they're not as good." Dean K. Whitla, director of the office of instructional research and evaluation and a committee member, said he hopes the report will help dispel such myths. "The fact that some minority students perceive themselves as less than...