Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This might have passed for just another ramshackle kung-fu import if it were not for the ad campaign, which promised "the first X-rated fight scenes in screen history." The M.P.A.A. is usually stern about sexual content, but almost carefree about violence. What about The Street Fighter could have raised the organization...
Richard Hope, not content with simply writing most of the songs in the show, bounces around as a rolly-polly pair of twins, cornering the laugh market whenever he rolls on stage. Only Harriet Kittner, who doubles as Tom Mix, the bartender, and Clementine, the supposedly dead heiress, lacks the lines to develop her comic expertise. As Clementine, the theoretical heroine who falls short of that role because the authors spent so much time developing the surfelt of leading characters. Kittner must restrain her comic abilities. She supplants here talent with an out-of-character solemnity that makes the audience...
HERSEY'S WRITING is ideally fitted to the novel's content. The short, almost choppy sentences express conversation well, and almost embody thoughts deliberated and forgotten in microseconds. At times, his Hemingwayesque turn of phrase verges on journalism, but even this is effective. Hersey is trying to sting minds with his nightmare world, and the more matter-of-fact he can be, the greater the impact. He puts you in the lines, where it's easy to feel the invasion and massacre of privacy, easy to remember the tensions of shared or walk-through bedrooms, easy to imagine Harvard Square...
...part of privileged academia: high rents due to University students who have the dollars to pay for dwellings inaccessible to ordinary folks; real estate deals that exclude low-income Cambridge dwellers desperately needing such housing; blossoming of cultural activities within the University community, with nothing of any cultural content for or in behalf of the Cambridge community; working for Harvard as "inferior" types, at minimum wages...
...number of pitfalls will remain which can threaten the realization of this objective. The first of these problems is the risk of devoting disproportionate emphasis to formal analytic techniques. Among the subjects I have described, statistics, economics and the related methods of analysis may appear to have more content because they are more precise and reflect a more developed body of knowledge. Teachers in these fields are likely to complain that a professional curriculum allows them too little time to convey an adequate understanding of their disciplines. As a result, they will surely press for more space in the curriculum...