Word: dorm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This sequence exemplifies Vigo's approach throughout the film. He takes a pillow fight, a normal event in a dorm of twelve-year-olds, and transforms it into a fierce and successful weapon against authority. Then he cuts all this furious activity to a halt and momentarily renders it quite unreal. The pace of the slow-motion section underlines the wildness of the fight and its stylization makes the preposterous pillow victory seem very real by contrast...
...does mention the problems Radcliffe girls face in maintaining their femininity, especially in the academic world, the sometimes absurd search for imagery and symbolism in many literature courses, and the misery of living in a women's dorm (she is probably accurate here). However, nowhere is the clash of values between upper middle class and upper class girl discussed. Not one sentence is devoted to the determined and self-conscious political activists. And the effect of stiffening academic requirements on Radcliffe's activities is ignored...
...present, a 'Cliffle may normally stay that no later than 1 a.m. during her first three years. But seniors who rank group V or above and who have a good social record may leave their dorm as late as 1 a.m. and sign out until 7 a.m. without the Head Reisdent's permission after the first six weeks...
When the new system was instituted at the beginning of the term, the Gold Coast and the Coop--local concerns with dorm laundry services--complained that they were not duly notified about the change in operation. Gordon Linen Service, through which HSA runs its linen delivery, did not voice similar complaints...
...judges, Professors Rosenberg and Woodworth and Radcliffe's Dean Sherman, awarded second place to Eliot Hall for its song about the dorm being swallowed up by the new House System. The girls of Whitman, singing of the anguish of paper writing, won third prize...