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Occasionally Daisy quickens with fragments of myth-shattering dialogue, or sudden, almost surrealistic glimpses of the movie colony as a darkly gleaming horror-fantasy controlled by elegant zombies. But Hollywood self-satire is also a corridor of mirrors where movie makers are apt to start cringing at their own shadows. In adapting his novel to the screen, Scenarist Gavin Lambert softens the tone of merry irreverence and moves the action back to the comfortably distant 1930s. And Director Robert Mulligan never quite decides whether to play for heartbreaks or black humor. The strain tells on Robert Redford, a deft actor...
Farmer traces CORE's development back to 1942, when it was so colorblind that one of its white female work ers, mugged in an apartment corridor, neglected to tell police that her assailant was a Negro-"for fear," writes Farmer, "of indicating prejudice." Now, he notes, CORE is in a "mood ebony," and he quotes a man as telling him, "Brother Farmer, we've got to dig being black." No black nationalist, Farmer digs it nonetheless. "We are not so worried if we get to be known as Negroes," he writes. We are desegregationists, not necessarily integrationists...
Sandra, though lento-paced and pretentious, does create a bewitching atmosphere of decadence. While the old, ordered world passes into limbo, Visconti savors every detail of a cavernous manse where each drafty, half-lit corridor and every gleaming bit of crystal augurs ill. But finally the decor becomes a bore, and even Visconti's human characters seem used up, lifeless, set into place like figures in a faded tapestry...
Students were advised not to sign the card yesterday by officers of the Students for a Democratic Society, who stood in the Memorial Hall corridor until a janitor asked them to leave...
...original idea was to arrange for an entire freshman dorm to house the seminar's 40 boys and a whole corridor in a Radcliffe dorm for the 20 girls. When this was not possible, he settled for a small frame house near the Square to use as the group's home away from home. In retrospect, Riesman is relieved that the first scheme failed. "Enough group solidarity developed as it was," he says. "I just went to another seminar wedding...