Word: contente
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only parallel there is the fact that each has a very conspicuous style which I felt was appropriate to the content of the book. With the subject matter in Catch-22 I tried very much to make the style part of the content--maybe you found that yourself--the method of telling being as important as what's being told. I think the same is true with Something Happened. What I want to tell in Something Happened is so much different in terms of emotions and viewpoint than Catch-22. The choice of style I think is very much different...
...attempt to ease differences--but as William J. Fletcher Jr. '76, a protest organizer, observed, "To go in front of an audience that is prepared for entertainment and to talk about politics would cause problems." The brief acknowledgement by a film society leader of the movie's blatantly racist content, presented before the uneventful Friday night showing, was insufficient to dispel the odor of some of the racial myths unabashedly portrayed...
...discussions that followed the demonstration is the willingness of both the protesters and the film society chairmen to present a screening of Birth of a Nation with appropriate political analysis. It is doubtful that there will be any controversy about the movie itself; attacks on the film's content have been uniform in the last 60 years. But whether or not any original analysis emerges, a peaceful showing and reasoned condemnation of Birth of a Nation will do much to wash away the sour taste of Saturday night...
...would wish to be in power and bear the "responsibility" for the events of the next 12 or 18 months--a period of time which will almost certainly see more hostility in Britain than any time since the General Strike in 1926. Smart politicians of both parties might be content to lean back and let the other fellow bear the brunt of the approaching disasters, then move in on a landslide to pick up the pieces. Perhaps this is part of the reason none of the younger, less tarnished politicians of either party have pressured their shopworn leaders into resigning...
Three representatives of the Organization for the Solidarity of Third World Students tentatively agreed yesterday to support a re-scheduling of the film "Birth of a Nation," providing the showing is accompanied by a thorough discussion of the film's racial content...