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Even though our calls for Core reform have fallen on deaf ears, in light of this year's selections, we feel compelled to make our plea again: make distribution requirements so that, for example, History 1619: "The American Revolution," can count for History B. Historical studies B courses currently include the comparable "America and the Civil War" and "America and Vietnam." In addition, certain departmental science classes can fulfill the Science A and B requirements...
...life, from the beginning, was hardly boring. Born in Fontana Liri, 50 miles outside Rome, to a carpenter who went blind and a housewife who went deaf ("They were like a comic couple," he said), Mastroianni did time in a German labor camp during World War II, then escaped to Venice and later to Luchino Visconti's famed Milan theater troupe. The screen had to claim this face, so sensitive, masculine and alert, but it took a decade or more for him to achieve true Marcellosity. In Visconti's rapturous White Nights (1957), Mastroianni spent the whole movie pleading fruitlessly...
...wonderful gift for setting up these situations which illustrate visually the key themes of the film. Gregoire is an outsider at court, but an insider at the Doctor's country mansion. One scene shows him learning to dance in the doctor's parlor with Mathilde, as young Paul, a deaf-mute of the Doctor's household, mimicks them, dancing alone in the field outside. Or the masquerade scene, where Gregoire is barefaced, ringed by the towering wigs and vulture-like beaks of the masqueraders, the sole non-player...
Another wonderful scene is the demonstration of the abilities of several deaf-mutes from a special education center. The deaf-mutes are at first an object of ridicule for the courtiers. After all, since they can't speak, they are necessarily excluded from the routine exchanges of quips that form the backbone of court life. But as the scene progresses, the deaf-mutes respond with their own wit, in their own language, with "plays on signs" that the court cannot understand, because they in their turn are excluded by language...
...participated in Harvard Model U.N., Mozart Society Orchestra and the Committee on Deaf Awareness...