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...Chagall could not long escape into the world of theater and ballet. The disasters of war inflamed him, and in 1943 he painted the Yellow Crucifixion. Amidst acidic yellows and greens, Vitebsk burns, a ship sinks, a ladder is half-posed to remove Christ from the Cross. In his Falling Angel, begun in 1923 and not finished until 1947, the whole world violently disintegrates, with a rabbi fleeing with the Torah and an angel hemorrhaging down through a tempest-torn...
...conspicuously on the College scene in the annual class marshal elections. Faye Levine tried to become the first girl class marshal of a Harvard graduating class. The 329 years of ivied traditions trembled, but they did not fall. The HCUA, in its own death throes, rushed to preserve Propriety. Amidst a pleasant furor, Miss Levine's candidacy was ruled invalid. But the candidate on the basis of some little-publicized election rules further sullied the election. The proceedings amply reflected the disdain, in which most of the class held the proceedings...
Director Vadim has not reinterpreted La Ronde; he has simply thrown himself upon it like a pimpled schoolboy tussling for kisses in the cloakroom. Famed for his ability to guide young actresses from obscurity to nudity, Vadim usually displays them backside up amidst a pile of sheets. In Circle, with five lissome beauties at his disposal (Fonda, Catherine Spaak, Anna Karina, Francine Bergé, Marie Dubois), he simply varies the routine with a good deal of explicit groping, button tugging and lifting of skirts...
...Amidst a terrible silence on a Saturday night they fought a duel without rules, until both were badly injured. Clearly the value of a nickel was not at stake, but rather honor and pride. To these men, to fight was the expected and manly solution...
Harvard's two largest political organizations are approaching the election of new officers amidst furious political struggles. Candidates for the presidency of both the Young Democrats and Young Republicans, and their loyal lieutenants, are racing from room to room, day and night, to away votes with detailed platforms...