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...helped establish Harvard's first separate Department of Psychology. And in 1946. Allport, with Talcott Parsons (sociology), the late Clyde Kluckhohn (anthropology), and Henry Merry (clinical psychology), founded the first inter-disciplinary department in the social sciences in the United States. Harvard's Department of Social Relations. Parsons became its chairman and Allport headed its graduate division...
...first moments Bonnie and Clyde flirts with the idea of being an art movie, but before any real damage is done, the director, the writers, and the cameraman abandon their collective self-consciousness and the worst temptation is past. What follows is an extraordinary film...
...early '30's is the locale of the film. Ugly little towns, cropless fields and unpaved roads fill the screen. Garbage, newspapers, and dust blow across endless flatlands, and each shabby interior has its own oppressiveness. It is less poverty than ultimate bleakness that is Bonnie and Clyde's landscape. Times are hard, but it is the place rather than the time which shapes the society Penn portrays. His view of the depression is closer to that of Walker Evans than Dorothea Lange, and he has peopled his film with faces of unspectacular emptiness. Everyone is dispossessed: those who hold...
...ambushed and shot down near Arcadia La., on May 23, 1934. But Producer Beatty and Director Arthur Penn have elected to tell their tale of bullets and blood in a strange and purposeless mingling of fact and claptrap that teeters uneasily on the brink of burlesque. Like Bonnie and Clyde themselves, the film rides off'in all directions and ends up full of holes...
...real fault with Bonnie and Clyde is its sheer, tasteless aimlessness. Director Penn has marshaled an impressive framework of documentation: a flotilla of old cars, a scene played in a movie theater while Gold Diggers of 1933 runs off on the screen, a string of dusty, fly-bitten Southwestern roadhouses and farms. (One booboo: the use of post-1934 dollar bills.) But repeated bursts of country-style music punctuating the bandits' grisly ventures, and a sentimental interlude with Bonnie's old Maw photographed through a hazy filter, aim at irony and miss by a mile. And this...