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Xerox Journalism. The trustees eventually went along with the award, but not without some soul-searching. Columbia President William J. McGill revealed that "a very substantial number of trustees feel very strongly about the problem of approving a prize which seems to convey that the university is approving illegal acts." Some trustees also balked at rewarding White for a story that may have fallen in his lap. Said McGill: "The feeling is not that the reporter is at fault here but that the award is significant only because of the misdemeanor, and that seems to us to be Xerox journalism...
Promoted as, of all things, a comedy, and as an alternative to the sex-and-violence black exploitation films, Claudine is one of the year's most dismaying products. It is directed with staggering vulgarity, and it is embarrassingly misacted by its stars. Both are careful to convey the notion that this is a slumming expedition by a woman best known for playing the upwardly mobile Julia on TV, and by an actor whose bombastic style seems calculated less to make his portrayal of a sanitation worker believable than to remind us that he has done quite...
...characters in her subsequent books, among them such bestsellers as Aimez-Vous Brahms? and A Certain Smile, tended to be beautiful, languid, bent on self-destruction. They were often driven by pangs of ennui, whose meaning in French implies more cosmic pain than its English translation ("boredom") can possibly convey...
...mike, Terkel talked with elevator operators and company presidents, yacht salesmen and bricklayers, firemen and middle-managers, foremen and farmers and hair stylists-with those few who thought they were in control, with those many more who knew they were not. The excellence of the interviews is hard to convey in brief, since it is a stream-of-consciousness flow that gives them their quality. But the interview with Mike Lefevre, a 37-year-old worker in an Illinois steel mill, is a good example...
...Attic times, men would have performed both men's and women's roles. Because of the oppression of women in ancient Greece and the misogyny apparent in Euripedes's writings, it is only poetic justice that several female actresses should excell in this production. Julia Gilbert, as Helen, conveys the beauty of the language as well as the comic, romantic and semi-tragic sides of her personality. The cast as a whole--and particularly Gilbert and Ann Bailen, as the portress--pay careful attention to the Greek meters and rhythm, which speed up or slow down, depending on the feeling...