Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...parody of motel Americana. With the innovative successes of Dr. Strangelove and 2001, he recouped much of his prestigé. Still, there remains some doubt as to whether Kubrick has retained his ability to create characters of psychological breadth and substance. His newest project-a life of Napoleon-should answer that question. Orson Welles' old appraisal still holds: "Kubrick is a great director who has not yet made his great film." ∙ MIKE NICHOLS. Unlike Kubrick and Perm, Nichols arrived in Hollywood with formidable riches and reputation. As an entertainer he had been (with Elaine May) a cutting satirist...
College fund raisers have been groping for the right answer all year. While private campuses have never been so in need of alumni cash, alumni have never been so angry at protesters. By last week, enough checks had come in so that fund raisers finally knew which box to check. At most campuses, the donation trend is surprisingly upward. There are fewer gifts, but the sums are bigger than ever...
...cards mailed out by hopeful fund raisers. Many postage-paid envelopes came back containing news pictures of the gun-toting black students at Cornell-and no checks. The kind of alumni ire once generated by losing football teams is now created by winning rioters. One grad wrote anonymously in answer to a plea from Temple: "Let the sit-ins pay; they run things." This was doubly wounding to Temple, where a one-day sit-in had won nothing...
...activist philosophy. In a speech several weeks ago, he said: "I have heard a great many people say to me, 'Well, I agree with your opinions on these civil rights, all right, but don't you think you are going too fast?' Of course, the answer to that is, 'We haven't anything to say about how fast we go.' We go with the cases that come to us; and when they come to us with a question of human liberties involved in them, we either hear them and decide them...
...boos and bravos, although applause predominated at a different production of the work in Stuttgart last week. Penderecki was unfazed. Isn't opera an archaic form for modern composers? he was asked. "Only people who don't have the brains to write one think so," was his answer...