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After hearing nearly two weeks of testimony from professors from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), universities in New York and Maryland and the two Harvard professors--Bowersock and Stanley Cavell, Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value--Judge Harry Elam ruled that "Caligula" has no literary, artistic or scientific value...
...Elam based his decision mainly on testimony from Andrew Hacker, professor of political science at Queens College in New York, saying that Hacker showed that the film demonstrated "the frightening effect of power in the hands of a single person, how power was used to emasculate, debase and exploit sexually...
...scene for the parody of justice, your reporter serves up two preliminary cases involving Blacks. (To what anti-racist motives, incidentally, should one ascribe the constant spelling of "Blacks" with a majuscule and "whites" with a miniscule?) In the first case, Judge Elam, with what appears to be scrupulous impartiality, dismissed the charges as unproven and declared the accused innocent. The second case concerned the man who wore the grieved face, but Ms. Russell gives us no clue as to its meaning, unless she wishes us to infer that grief should bestow immunity from due process...
...McGaw's certitude about Mr. Ezera: why doubt his word any more than Mr. Ezera's? But in the "courtroom parody" the error was corrected. The plaintiff, for motives unspecified (awe? fear? doubt?), withdrew her identification. Judge Grabau, although white, displayed the same rigor as Judge Elam: he summoned counsel to the bench, pronounced Mr. Ezera innocent, and thereby expunged the arrest from his record. Your reporter describes this as "the end of the play" but the protagonist still insists that skin of a different color would have kept him out of court. Permit me to doubt...
...that Judge Elam "ducked" a difficult trial. The news article (April 4, 1980) says. "The delays subsequently resulted in a postponement, which moved the case from the docket of Judge Harry P. Elam, a Black judge, to the afternoon session under Judge Charles Grabau, a white judge." I also do not feel that because Judge Grabau grew up in Cuba, he is Hispanic...