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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SHAKESPEARE WALLAH. The sunset of colonialism in modern India colors a wry, wistful and poetic film by U.S. Director James Ivory, who delicately explores a love triangle among a young man (Shashi Kapoor), a native film star (Madhur Jaffrey), and an ingenue (Felicity Kendal) touring the provinces with an English Shakespeare troupe...
...antigovernment protest at its most verbose. In Danang, the English-language placards read: "Down With the American Conspiracy of Hindering the Summoning of a Constitutional Parliament. To Hinder the Summoning of Parliament Is to Intervent in the Viet Nam's Own Affairs." In Hue, the ancient Buddhist center 50 miles north west of Danang, 400 students took over the radio station for two days, broadcasting speeches and communiques denouncing the government of Premier Nguyen Cao Ky and punctuating the polemics with, of all things, John Philip Sousa's The Stars and Stripes Forever...
...President Sekou Toure is concerned, French-speaking Guinea and English-speaking Ghana have been "one country" ever since he and Kwame Nkrumah swore their eternal togetherness in 1958. When Nkrumah was toppled from power, therefore, it seemed the honorable thing to call for 50,000 Guinea volunteers to march into Ghana and restore "the Redeemer" to his throne. Trouble was that to get there, Sekou's soldiers would have had to march 250 miles through an entirely different country, the Ivory Coast, whose President Félix Houphouet-Boigny called out his own 3,000-man army to repel...
...third case, which cleared Fanny Hill, Brennan noted expert testimony in the Massachusetts trial that Fanny "belongs to the history of English literature rather than the history of smut." All the same, added Brennan, in an apparent invitation to further litigation, "evidence that the book was commercially exploited for the sake of prurient appeal, to the exclusion of all other values, might justify the conclusion that the book was utterly without redeeming social value...
Even on the present budget, the center has developed new uses for computers. The machines analyze the structure of English sentences, they solve intricate differential equations, they can flash mathematical curves on a screen at the touch of a button. All one has to do to make them work for him is learn their argot. Automation of the Widener files is one new use that will be possible with the expanded facilities...