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HARVARD SQUARE was a contused chessboard this summer; at times the conflict was open, bricks and sticks meeting clubs and tear gas. But more often the conflict was below the surface, a confused struggle which no one understood. The signs of victory and defeat were subtle; the number of policemen in the Square, of boards on shop windows, of panhandlers in Forbes Plaza and newspaper hawkers on the MBTA traffic island, of signs and posters on the boards covering the front of the Cambridge Trust Co., served as an indicator of the flux of forces controlling the Square on each...
THERE was enough motion on the political chessboard of Europe last week to confound even the most nimble-witted Grand Master. Wherever one turned, there seemed to be delegations hurrying to and fro, trailing position papers, press releases and calculated leaks-Germans and Arabs, Russians and Americans, Israelis and even Chinese...
...that was created, not just felt, partly by using dialogue that is more like lyrics than speech. According to traditionalist historians, there is no history, only biography. Z reverses the proposition; there are only forces, not men. Accordingly, the leading roles are the sort one would find on a chessboard. In an essentially small part, Montand is again Camus-like, at once involved and lofty. Trintignant, more through skill than script, turns the abstract notion of justice into a driven man who would shatter his career rather than bend the truth...
...example, is to suggest operatic and surrealistic fantasies, or the mixture of brio and disgust with which Fellini views society. "Godardesque" implies the nervous tics and mannerisms of an artist whose creative palsy can produce intriguing collages but never a totally complete vision. "Antonioniesque" suggests the world as a chessboard, full of malignant surfaces and doomed figures. "Pennesque," "Nicholsesque," "Kubrick-esque"-the labels refuse to stick. Yet the time may not be far off when they will...
...stodgy rabbi (class of '24), his speckled-H Harvard tie clashing rather prominently with a blue pin stripe suit, voiced his agreement with Wald. "Some students maybe have a legitimate reason for protest because they don't want to be pawns on the chessboard of world politics that may get us down into a horrible hole from which we may never be able to be extricated...