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...associates the deterioration in appearance of college students with a general decay of manners and morality among the young people she sees on the streets and hears about from other adults. When she came to dinner at Radcliffe once last year, she objected to the public displays of affection which she now refers to as "three couples making violent love in the dining room." She was also horrified at the idea of mixed sexes swimming nude together in the Adams House pool. "Why, that's the lowest kind of animalism," she said, "and after all, even every animal...
Children of Paradise is a great film (certainly my favorite), and more worth seeing than anything else around. The characters are both attractively larger- than-life and full of basic human traumas, and they move with point through the rich decay and underworld glamour of Louis-Philippe's Paris. The concept of the film is daringly poetic for film narrative (the characters' developments are seen largely through their own conscious artistic achievements), but fully achieved. It is a brilliantly acted and mimed film about great mimes and actors who really lived and performed in and around the Boulevard of Crime...
McGovern has made errors in judgment. But none of his mistakes can compare to the horrible and intentional errors of his opponent. The upcoming election presents clear moral alternatives. A vote for Richard Nixon will further the sweep of destruction outside and the creep of decay within. A vote for McGovern is a hope that tomorrow will be better than today...
...recent Cambridge appearance of two plans by Alain Tanner, a young Swiss director, provides a suitable target for thought for those concerned with contemporary moral and artistic decay. The widescale ballyboo over these films seems to indicate the final jading of the already over cultized Cambridge film audience...
...crumbling walls and underpinning of the Forum, another $4,000,000. But Rome has the highest municipal debt in Italy, around $3 billion: it is in effect bankrupt. And the deterioration of antica Roma is only one in a series of revelations of decay in Italy's most famous monuments that have popped up, like Banquo's ghost, to alarm conservationists this summer...