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...Rene Clement's Purple Noon (Plein Soleil) is a highly successful marriage of at least two movies. By turn a mystery thriller and a beautiful portrait of the Mediterranean, it emerges as a poignant statement of human corruption in a modern Eden...
Movie number two is Clement's portrait of Eden. His cameras follow Phillipe's sloop Marge along the lush Italian coast from Rome to Sicily. From the Mediterranean setting he creates not so much a background as a circumscribed universe which encloses the action in a glass bell of almost suffocating beauty...
Purple Noon studies its characters carefully and objectively, and Clement has made full use of his small but uniformly excellent cast. As the cruel and brutish playboy, Maurice Ronet stands out from the mass of playboys murdered in thrillers. When Marge puts off making love to lecture him on art, he explodes, destroys her notes, and roars "Why do you mix Fra Angelico and love...
...Cooperation is the salvation of private colleges," says President Rufus Clement of Atlanta (Negro) University. He heads the Atlanta University Center, which boasts six member colleges. Instead of six weak libraries, they have one strong one of 200,000 volumes. Four share a central-heating plant; all use their one best Shakespeare professor, physics and chemistry departments. They share dormitories, athletic fields, and may even integrate their bookkeeping. The setup lures increasingly better students (including some whites), makes Atlanta the top Negro educational center...
...Basic Mood. But there was little sense of panic in such preparations, and the nation's basic mood was well expressed by Dr. Rufus Clement, president of Georgia's Atlanta University. Said he: "If we back down at any time because of threats, it will inevitably lead to surrender. The Soviets have decided to frighten the free world into accepting their aim. They must be met-calmly...