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OTHELLO. A stagy film, starring Sir Laurence Olivier as the Moor. Although he seems pitted less against lago than the Bard, Olivier, blackface, West Indian accent and all, still manages to show why today he is the most versatile actor in the world...
Several innovation-minded new campuses have dropped grades entirely. Sarasota's New College requires only that its students pass comprehensive final examinations each year. Maine's Nasson College is developing a new division with the help of nine other colleges (including Antioch, Bard, Sarah Lawrence and Stephens), which will have no traditional courses and no grades, will center on seven broad "provinces" of learning, such as "mind and spirit" and "mathematics and logic...
...alone for up to a year at Kalamazoo and Pomona and, beginning next fall, Amherst. Goddard's longstanding program of independent study for seniors has spread to 89% of the juniors, half of the sophomores. Extensive off-campus work and study have long made such schools as Antioch, Bard, Bennington and Beloit distinctive...
...stage interpretation. Archivists should cherish the film as a record of what happens when the greatest actor in the English-speaking theater attacks a famous, difficult role and stamps his genius upon it. Yet Olivier's Othello seems ultimately to be pitted less against Iago than against the Bard himself...
...Momo") Giancana is a top-echelon Chicago mobster who brags that he reads Shakespeare. As the star boarder of the Cook County jail for the past seven months, he has had plenty of time to brush up on the bard-and, no doubt, to reflect on Caesar's fate and other most unkindest cuts. For whatever else he may have done in a long and lucrative career-and he has only twice gone to prison before-Sam at 57 is in durance vile for indulging his red-blooded American right to plead the Fifth Amendment...