Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nation," released in 1915, marked a great leap forward for the fledgling film industry, introducing moving cameras, night filming and a musical score. But even at the time it was bitterly criticized (by the NAACP and by President Emeritus Charles William Eliot among others) for its racist content...
...challenge to faculty conservatism and entrenchment could be seen in almost every social science this year: in last fall's Visiting Committee report on the Economics Department, which criticized the department for the poor quality and content of its graduate program and for the "strong sense of alienation and frustration" among its nontenured faculty and graduate students; and in Nobel Prize-winner Wassily W. Leontief's resignation and citing of the report as a reason for his departure...
...Robin that he could lead an almost normal life. But more likely they saw it as a way of proving the same thing to themselves, and vindicating themselves from guilt over what was an avoidable accident. But we at the newspaper had initiated the story: we weren't content to list him among the other blue ribbon winners at the Jefferson County Fair, which would have been the normal treatment of the boy. All I could say to myself and to my editor was, why highlight the tragedy again? His rejoinder: Just think, he might have become a burden...
...freshman race was two miles long and Harvard took off right from the stake boats. By the first half mile the Crimson held a fairly commanding eight seat margin, but Rothstein was not content to sit on the lead and he called for a power...
...black and white sequences. The intercutting of past as color and present as black and white functions as a sort of Brechtian alienation effect, distancing the viewer from the action in order to make him consider its implications. The black and white sequences, both in form and content, pose the question of the occupation's meaning for Frenchmen today. The dull crowds of people, the dark buildings, the depressing film studio--mundane scenes from the present--undercut the exquisite nostalgia of the color sequences and reveal the director's consciousness of the limitations of his self-exploration...