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Edward Zwick has made the rather barren script, by Joel Schwartz '66, into an excellent point of departure for his ensemble of actors. The cast, combining fluidity and grace with a concern for moral issues, adopt different characters and moves from joyous court scenes to moribund battles with remarkable ease. Bernard Holmberg extends his domain over the entire audience with his powerful portrayals of both the again Kings Saul and David. He carefully constructs the painful tension of a forsaken leader, and confidently bursts into song and dance. In the final scene, his change from proud endurance to senility...
...door that squeaks the loudest gets the grease." Since The Crimson is certainly aware of the fact that the Affirmative Action concept grew out of the civil rights movement and early legal victories for racial equality, to ignore the import of that concept for minority groups is to adopt an unfortunate and spurious political posture...
...envision the walls of Harvard Law School in total isolation, or we can approach that same milieu with a persistent awareness of what is happening to us during this long-awaited period of transition. But we cannot ascribe our failure to adopt the second alternative totally to the peculiar arrangement between Harvard and Radcliffe. The non-merger presents us with more than our share of difficulties. But whatever it is here at Radcliffe that is preventing us from collecting our energy, it goes far beyond corporate contracts, geography and leaflets. For the time being, the will is just not there...
Whatever specific programs we adopt, whatever committees we organize, regardless of the people for whom we march, or the prisoners, farm workers, women, minority groups, and so on for whom we demonstrate, let us not fall into power games and into the passion for fictionalizing the past and present which Nixon has turned into an art. The "peace" in Indochina is no less than thinly-veiled war. The American calm is no more than simmering discontent. The truth is clear--our struggles continue...
...observer's position in order to "enlarge his intellectual viewpoint." (Since it is actions, and not sentiments that are here required to be neutral, a journalist needn't express a neutral point of view. "Ideological plugola" would be allowed.) And because most citizens would be unwilling to always adopt such a disinterested stance, the instances where such a privilege would be granted would be inherently limited. Perhaps fulfillment of the traditional ideal of neutrality, at least with respect to actions, is the price journalists must pay for the privilege of not having to open their minds in court...