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Harvard students do not seem to be alone in the rush to test their endurance in unusual ways. George Berman '75, a Lowell House resident, said Saturday that the Thursday dining hall incident paled before antics at other colleges...
...That's nothing," he said. "At UMass they get into clothes dryers, turn them on, and see how many times they can go around without throwing up." The record to date is 100 times, Berman said...
Demands for permission to live with families, equal pay for equal work, employment security and rights to live in urban areas were denied. John Kane-Berman of the South African Institute for Race Relations remarked sadly, "The worst features of the old system are still there: the compounds, the low wages and the separation of families...
Persona is the most innovative of Berman's films and, as Simon points out, it is also his most difficult. Simon's honesty as a critic is well revealed by comparing his original review of the film (The New Leader, May 1967), in which he admitted he did not yet understand it, with the article in the current book, in which he presents several years' reflection with no condescension toward the reader. When the film was first released, many baffled reviewers gave up, terming Persona a work of poetic images with no substance. The first intelligent analysis was Susan Sontag...
Died. Eugene Berman, 73, Russian-born painter who led the neoromantic movement in Paris during the '20s but found his real forte three decades later as a designer of lush sets for New York's Metropolitan Opera (Rigoletto, The Barber of Seville, Don Giovanni) and the opera stages of Europe; in Rome...