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...suggestion was that the French took Coppola's gaily revisionist view of 18th century history as an insult to their civic pride. But the French critics were mostly supporters of the film. Michel Ciment, the doyen of Positif magazine, and a member of a jury of critics convened by the daily Cannes edition of Screen International, gave Marie Antoinette four palms, the highest rating. The critic for Les Echoes called it "a superb film," and the one for Le Figaro said it was "prettily filmed." The French website Romandie.com pegged the Coppola movie, along with Pedro Almod...
...folk period and only caught on when Bobby D. went electric. By then, Dylan was already nearing the end of his artistic prime - a five-year stretch from 1961 to '66, when he revolutionized first folk, then rock, infusing his music with astringent, haunting imagery that fully justified critic Richard Goldstein's 1969 designation of Dylan as "the major poet of his generation...
...Direction Home (though she had been interviewed for the film), had recorded with Buddy Holly back in Texas, and, according to The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia, Holly "followed her to Greenwich Village" in 1958. He wasn't the only one infatuated with Carolyn. Robert Shelton, the New York Times music critic who gave Dylan his first rave review (when he appeared on a bill with Carolyn) was also smitten by her. So was Dylan. Referring in Chronicles to her brief marriage to the poet Richard Fari?a, Dylan wrote, "I thought he was the luckiest guy in the world...
...Summers and professors, who were still seething a month after the president’s comments on women in science. Faculty members shot down Knowles’ proposal, calling it undemocratic and prearranged.But Harry R. Lewis ’68, dean of the College under Knowles and an outspoken critic of Summers, on Monday called Bok’s decision “a great appointment.”“There is no one who understands Harvard better, or would work longer hours, with greater integrity, to help get Harvard back on its feet,” Lewis...
...four tenured professors and three non-tenured professors, including two humanists, three natural scientists, and two social scientists. The 18 members of the council, excluding the Dean of the Faculty, are nominated and elected by the faculty.Mathematician Wilfried Schmid, an active participant in faculty meetings and vocal critic of University President Lawrence H. Summers’ administration, joins the council 26 years after coming to Harvard.He said that his fellow faculty members supported his election because they agree with his call for a slimmer University administration. “Harvard used to have a rather lean sense of administration...