Word: antioch
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First and foremost, he was head of the family. It was a large family - Russians, Greeks, Bulgars, Syrians - and it could be a quarrelsome one. His fellow patriarchs in the ancient sees of Jerusalem, Antioch and Alexandria, and newer ones like Moscow, recognized him only as the "first among equals." The power of his office had originally derived from its association with the Byzantine Empire, and later from its role as a kind of Christian viceroy for the Islamic Ottoman Empire. But modern Turkey had scant use for a Christian leader in Constantinople...
...linking him to the Central Intelligence Agency. Whatever the charges, Snow never forgot that he was an American. He made no move to renounce citizenship, as did some admirers of Mao, and his 20-year-old daughter Sian (the name means "Western Peace" in Mandarin) is a student at Antioch College...
...recurring, if not pervasive sense of irony. Director Reichenbach appears throughout the film bobbing around and asking inane questions ("What means for you vibrations?") in heavily accented French. He becomes a buffoon in his own movie. Toward the end of Caravan, there is a long scene at Antioch College during which the students denounce the film makers as frauds, the caravan members as dupes and the executives of Warner Bros, as flat-out bandits. From the evidence at hand, it's hard to disagree. The gnomish sabotage of the film's basic premise was accomplished by Associate Producer...
...parts, however, make for a highly imperfect whole. As a musical and historical event, the caravan was a total bust. The film's best sequences are those-like Antioch, or a look at a family of Colorado speed freaks dressed as cavemen-in which the tie-dyed patina of the whole project is mocked. But such moments are few. Which is a pity, because as a piece of deliberate self-parody Medicine Ball Caravan could have been fascinating...
...house is deceptive: it is actually one of the far-flung little "graduate schools" run by Ohio's freewheeling Antioch College. Every day Stevens goes to a job in the guidance office of a nearby high school as part of her work toward a master of arts in teaching. Her new emphasis on dealing "with one person at one level at a time" is an outgrowth of her post-Wheaton frustration over conventional reformist projects. As a graduate student at the Columbia School of Social Work, she went to Harlem to act as a "block catalyst." Her block was black...