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...humanities bog down in criticism, history, and scholarly research which are not appropriate tools for education, however useful they are in scholarship. The responsibility for education falls not only upon scholars who have other obligations and are not suitably trained...
Hollow Victory. What does Cambodia need to survive? Says one U.S. diplomat: "Time, more than anything else." The current monsoon season gives an added advantage to the Communists, who live off the land and move on foot through the oceans of mud that bog down army vehicles. If Lon Nol can hang on until the rains end in September without losing much more territory, he will have achieved a significant victory...
...line the scriptwriter could give him to scream: "Where are my tits?" There is Raquel herself, who wanders about in virtual unemployment, spouting pendulous philosophy á la Vidal and a lot of pointlessly dirty words. She struggles desperately to parody herself but only sinks deeper and deeper into the bog around...
...flexible system is needed, then, to allow for this balance. Right now, perhaps the problem is not one of mathematics, but, should the time ever come when more Cliffics want more counseling, the system would bog down. It is not difficult to calculate that if an advisor saw each of forty advisees only one hour each week, he would be working an eight-hour day five days a week without doing anything else. And that is more than a one-fifth teaching...
...excess and then taken to the point of self-parody. The opening off-campus meeting between Kathleen Cleaver and Black militants with potential white revolutionaries starts out well with acceptable archetypal ideology tossed around. The dialogue is more theoretical than these discussions usually get (radical meetings tend to bog down in debates on procedure, elections, factional conflicts), but Antonioni cannot be blamed for telescoping exposition to raise some basic questions; it's the sort of things movies do best. But the need to provide an atmosphere distasteful to Mark (Mark Frechette), the film's protagonist, prompts Antonioni to make...