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Among the signers are eight Harvard scholars, including Gustay Papanek, former director of the Development Advisory Service (DAS) and Edward S. Mason, long-time consultant to the government of Pakistan, and recipient of the Sitara Pakistan, the highest award given a foreigner by the Pakistani government...
Other Harvard officers signing the appeal are Walter P. Falcon, deputy of the DAS; Maurice D. Kilbridge, dean of the School of Design; Peter P. Rogers, assistant professor of City Planning; John W. Thomas, a Development Advisor; and Hanna Papanek, a research associate of the Center for International Affairs...
Rocha treats these conflicts between elites and masses in two other films about primitive religion in the impoverished northeast of Brazil, Black God. White Devil (1964) and Antonio das Mortes (1969) where the people are actually killed off during the fighting between the elite revolutionary cangaceiros and the beatos, the hired killers of the landowning aristocracy. Rocha deals with Warrior Saints and Dragons of Evil, cut off from the masses by their self-consciousness as legend and their mystical level of existence. Sebastiao, for instance, the revolutionary "Black God," seeks to "revenge the death of Christ with the blood...
Much of the debate centered around the work of the DAS in Indonesia and Pakistan...
...accused the DAS of misusing funds in Pakistan in order to build roads to aid foreign capitalist investment, instead of working on flood control. In debating the effectiveness of the DAS-sponsored public works program in Pakistan, Papanek and Helfand presented conflicting sets of figures, Papanek's showing a rise in Pakistani wages between 1958 and 1960, and Helfand's showing a decline...