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...does being a Harvard man convey to the unwelcoming possessor of that title an active sort of responsibility which demands of him that he live up to that identity? Being from Harvard, you know that what is worshipped is the ideal, the abstraction, and not the living diurnal embodiment of Harvard. Yet when you turn outside the University, you see yourself again and again being personally identified with it. Ultimately, you realize that you have been entrapped willy-nilly by that identity which others have projected from themselves upon you. The only solution you can properly resign yourself to under...
Guinness had the genius to reproduce the stutter in Charles' speech which proved such a debility to the King in public life and, generally, to convey the reticence of a man denounced as tyrant but more suited for his private roles as art collector and cher papa. Harris, on the other hand, was put in the unfortunate quandary of acting out destinies both historically inaccurate and dramatically unconvincing. If I were discussing Garbo's Queen Christina, the license so common in historical romance could be admitted to extenuate glaring inaccuracies in terms of fact. But anyone who sits through...
Evaluation forms should be given to students to allow them to convey to their professors their reactions to the content and teaching methods of their courses. Students should be encouraged to offer feedback, and professors should be responsive...
...Despair. Equally dazzling, considered as illustration, is Duane Hanson's tour de force of social realism. "The content of my sculpture," he recently declared, "is derived from my feeling of despair. Realism is best suited to convey the frightening idiosyncrasies of our time." So his work makes up a chamber of all-American horrors: lifesize, startlingly real figures cast in Fiberglas and polyester resin. A group of Bowery winos sprawl filthily on a littered sidewalk; a dead motorcyclist, hideously mangled, lies pinned under his wrecked machine. In Tourists, Hanson extends his distaste to Mr. and Mrs. Middle America...
...Confession is the latest effort of the brilliant Greek director Costa-Gavras, who made Z. The new film is savage, methodical and painstakingly realistic; it is also static, relentless and thoroughly dispiriting. It closely documents the horror of a staged Stalinist purge trial, yet lacks the creative energy to convey the vibrancy of terror...