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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...POLAND'S FUTURE: One should perceive Poland's present and future in the context of efforts we have made in the past 30 years. This effort was tremendous. More than 6 million Poles were killed in World War II; 40% of our property lay in ruins. Also it should be remembered that during the war Poland lost most of its intelligentsia. These past years have really been difficult ones, a period of belt tightening and building, building, building from scratch. The only country that came to our assistance with concrete, tangible help was the Soviet Union...
Last Saturday, OSTWS forced the Adams House Film Society to cancel its screening of "Birth of a Nation" on the grounds that the film was to be shown in a context which did not adequately mitigate its offensive racist elements. On Sunday, about fifty members of this organization gathered outside the location where the Currier House Film Society had planned to show "Birth of a Nation" at an introductory meeting for old and new film society members. The OSTWS demonstrators seemed intent on preventing the screening, as they had at Adams House. As it turned out, the issue was academic...
Chukhrai does not hesitate to create sentimental scenes: Shura and Alyosha waving to each other as his train pulls away, Alyosha's mother running breathless and perspiring from her work in the fields to greet him. But somehow, in this context, anything less than sentimentality would be unsatisfactory. War has torn a society apart, and for a few brief moments its victims are struggling to recapture a past forever lost, or discover experiences never known. Absent is the business-as-usual optimism of most American films about the Second World War. There is a sense in Ballad of a Soldier...
...movie, Nevsky speaks in triumph to a mass of Russians who have assembled to celebrate their victory and pay him tribute. In his address he makes a plea for preparedness, a plea which Stalin and the Soviet leadership found themselves unable or unwilling to heed. In the context of the Hitler-Stalin Pact, which took place less than a year after the film was released, Alexander Nevsky must have seemed, to those who originally saw it, a meaningless film. To our good fortune, later historical events have made the movie, for all its flaws, anything but meaningless...
...resident of North House, claimed that members of the Third World, and only members of the Third World, were unfairly represented. Your reporter, Jonathan Weker, quoted me as saying, "Everyone in this House but the Third World students are represented." Not only have I been quoted out of context, but I sincerely doubt that my actual statement contained the grammatical error which appeared in Mr. Weker's article...