Word: blisse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...structural familiarity spreads itself into the story. Camille Bliss (Bernadette Lafont), thoroughly resistable convict, is the subject of a sociology thesis on "Criminal Women." Camille has nothing going for her at all -- ingnorant, vulgar, even hook-nosed--and yet Stanislas (Andre Dussollier) chooses her as subject over, we are told, an axe murderer and a homicidal Pole, for no discernable reason. No matter. From the outset, her insidious charm is clear. And that's half the story -- her complete captivation of Stanislas, the dryest of men, competent and professional but obviously ill-at-ease, even rapped, when placed...
...said Bliss, would probably offer more seminars if students asked the organization to provide programs unavailable elsewhere in the University. "We don't want our courses to be any less productive or useful than other courses," said Bliss, "but, if the resources are available, we will try to fulfill student requests...
...Shepherd Bliss, E4A project director and the coordinator of the Latin America group, said some students were apparently surprised to find a non-credit seminar demanding more of a commitment than regular courses. An advantage of his group, though, according to Bliss, is the contact it affords Harvard-Radcliffe students with people interested in Latin American issues from the local community and other colleges...
...BLISS ATTRIBUTES much of the organization's success to the soundness of Bunting's original vision. Though E4A's outlook on the world always changes, it was originally founded, Bliss feels, on a principle of social initiative which underlies the students' own philosophy and the success of E4A's projects. Bliss also believes that the commitment of Presidents Hunting and Horner to E4A has been instrumental in facilitating the group's own creative energies...
...activities. E4A doesn't measure success in literal terms by measuring final achievements against a project's original goals, Dudley said. Rather, E4A asks if the individual involved has personally grown in awareness and whether, in some measure, the projects have contributed to social change. E4A, according to Bliss, is oriented to meeting the needs of people-people in the University and people in the communities which students hope to serve...