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...House system should not be abandoned or compromised for the sake of equal admissions. It will be no credit to this Administration if it leaves Harvard an institution socially avant-garde but educationally waning...
Frozen Intellectuals. The intellectual atmosphere in Prague is as barren as are the prospects for Soviet departure. The famous avant-garde Theater Behind the Gates has been closed down, and the political cabarets that flourished in the late 1960s have disappeared. Such well-known Czechoslovak film directors as Milos Forman (Loves of a Blonde) and Jan Kadar (The Shop on Main Street) are now working in the West, while others who stayed home are banned from their profession. "The pressures are too great," one Czechoslovak intellectual explained. "It's all right if you are simply an actor, a singer...
...SELF-STYLED avant-gardistes roar back: No! We live in fragmented times, and any work of the Cinemah that intends to be critically truthful must reflect that fragmentation by making criticism of "bourgeois forms" part of the "data" imparted to an audience. (Every well-meaning cloud-nine intellectual should be required to serve in a factory of a chain gang.) Thus, say Sontag and Poirier, the most important films of the past decade have been the political works of Godard and Rocha, even though these guys are in the baby league as far as politicians go. For my money...
Still the artist's interest in his community has always been primary. In 1896 the famous Dreyfus case in France brought support from all the avant-garde artists of the time and caused Monet to sign a protest--the one overt political act of his life. George Orwell pointed out that when his works lacked political purpose they were lifeless. When great moral issues enter the world arena, artists react as a group as do other members of the community. In reaction to the Fascists in World War II, artists held shows of protest. The artist's subject matter...
Sheehan, 34, was a novelist and the director of an avant-garde theater in Los Angeles before becoming a cultural critic for KNXT last year. He says that he expected to have to battle his bosses over unfavorable reviews of CBS products, but "there hasn't been a hint of censorship. In fact, I've got to the state of reverse paranoia, and I'm so fully convinced of their fairness that I just say what I think needs to be said." He adds, as proof of his paranoia: "That may be my downfall...