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...final panel, on "Leisure is Suburbia," was a bomb. Bosley Crowther, movie critic of the New York Times, leered at one of the female panel members and sniggered suggestively at his own off-color jokes, before piously denouncing over-sexed movies. Paul Goodman, author of Growing Up Absurd, fought with a Commissioner of Planning about whether Puerto Rican children should be allowed to swim in Westchester County pools...
...complain that free tuition and redbrick expansion are debasing everything old and dear in English higher learning. "MORE will mean WORSE," wrote Novelist Amis recently. Expansionists reply that even the current boom in higher learning is dangerously smaller than that in any comparable country. Former Economist Editor Sir Geoffrey Crowther recently called Britain's backwardness "a formula for nation al decline," urged lowering degree standards to increase graduates. Most Britons are convinced that national survival depends on the future of the redbrick revolution-even if much British nostalgia still rests upon the ancient spires of Oxbridge...
...true that the synchronization of lips in dubbed films varies widely in quality. But, despite Crowther, even the most skillful jobs are pretty readily detectable as such. And few things so easily destroy illusion in cinema as faulty synchronization of the soundtrack. Besides, languages differ vastly in the time it takes to express the same idea; yet dubbing imposes a temporal sameness, which often cannot be achieved without taking unwarranted liberties with the original text...
...Crowther winds up his brief by imploring, "Let's give the general audience a chance to hear what they [foreign language films] are saying." I quite agree; and the way to do that is to give the patrons a chance to hear what the same people they look at are saying. How many persons would attend stage productions if the performers just mouthed their lines while others read them over loudspeakers from the wings? How many would fill a concert hall to hear a late string quartet of Beethoven played by two oboes, a clarinet, and a bassoon? Why single...
...everyone can be intimidated by Crowther's falling back on the ad captandum rhetoric of ridiculing "the gripes of purists who raise the old voice-of-Jacob cry." Hopefully, Crowther's will prove to be a voice crying in the wilderness...