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...unlikely, for example, that the changes will include facilities for smokers. As it is, girls studying in the Fiske Room not only interrupt their own studying when they go out for a cigarette, but also distract non-smokers. If smoking were limited to one room, perhaps in the basement, the cost of effective ventilation would not be extravagant and it would be a considerable convenience to all girls. Another universal complaint, which will probably not be fully corrected in the new scheme, concerns the straight wooden chairs. They might have done very well in the more straight-laced days forty...
Better Not to Weep. But the outcome, by all signs, was many weeks away. If they could help it, the Reds were not even going to let the charge come to the point of a legal decision. Inside & outside the court they did their best to delay, distract and confuse. The faithful, chanting "solidarity forever," marched in dogged droves outside the courthouse. City authorities assembled 400 policemen in the streets and in nearby buildings-just in case...
...simple, engaging action, and Olivier gave it a clarion confidence and sweetness. Hamlet is action in near-paralysis, a play of subtle and ambiguous thought and of even subtler emotions. Olivier's main concern has been to keep these subtleties in focus, to eliminate everything that might possibly distract from the power and meaning of the language. He has stripped the play and his production to the essentials. In the process, he has also stripped away a few of the essentials. But on the whole, this is a sternly beautiful job, densely and delicately worked...
There is little novel interpretation of character: even that might distract from the great language, or distort it. There is no clear placement in time, no outside world except blind sky, faint landscapes, ruminant surf, a lyrical brook. The camera, prowling and peering about the cavernous castle, creates a kind of continuum of time and space. Such castles were almost as naked of furniture as the Elizabethan stage; Olivier uses both facts to the film's advantage. Not even the costumes are distracting; they are close to the simplest mind's-eye image: a King & Queen like playing...
Officials of Widener have long held an interesting dualist view of Radcliffe undergraduates. Students from across the Common, in this view, are first of all a distraction and secondly scholars of a fundamentally less deserving variety than Harvard men. This means, first, that Radcliffe girls may not distract a whole reading roomful of scholars but must restrict their activities to a small section at one end of the room. It means in the second place severe restrictions on their use of Widener's reading room books...