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...ff In this film, Pasolini's eighty-year-old mother, with whom he lived all his life, plays the Virgin Mary. Their love-hate relationship was an extreme example of a very common psychological problem among Italian men: "il mamma-ismo." For Pasolini the situation was intensified by the fact that he never loved another woman. He was repelled by women's bodies and pregnancy filled him with horror. As he wrote to Oriana Fallaci: "I don't want to know what's in a woman's belly. Motherood disgusts me." Pasolini cultivated masculinity; he exercized every day, kept himself...

Author: By Eleni Constantine, | Title: A Roman Crime of Passion | 1/22/1976 | See Source »

...equalization of athletic opportunities in the University is a question that has been long neglected. For years Radcliffe has operated with severe ff-nanciallimitations and has lived a distinctly second-rate existence within the structure of the University as a whole...

Author: By Peter A. Landry, | Title: Petering Out | 9/28/1973 | See Source »

...about that same time the miners of West Virginia figured they'd had enough. They finally had a spokesman?a tough old doctor named I. F. B?ff, who lived in Charleston and liked to talk to coal miners. Whenever he could get them together, he talked, and they listened...

Author: By Tom Bethell, | Title: Black is the Color | 4/25/1970 | See Source »

...PENN ab r h rbi McF'1'n 1 0 0 0 Deats 3 0 1 0 Wean 4 0 0 0 Mapes 4 1 1 0 G'dman 5 0 2 1 H'ff'r'n 5 0 0 0 Zoya 4 1 1 0 H'r'l'we 4 2 2 0 W's'n'ski 4 0 1 2 Sch'f'ld 1 0 0 0 Shaffer 2 0 0 1 Dunn 1 0 0 0 Totals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nine Nips Penn in Tenth Inning, 5-4 | 4/24/1967 | See Source »

...also found the concert an irresistible opportunity for resuscitating Symphony Hall's gilded plumbingvia the Symphony No.3 of Saint-Saens, the so-called Organ Symphony. Politely termed "eclectic" in content, the symphony's overall level of subtlety and sophistication is best revealed by the descending C-major scale, played ff by the organ, which brings the work to an appropriate close. The listener is always guaranteed a few nervous thrills; but Friday's performance offered far more. Munch focused the overextended first movement into several overwhelming climaxes, emphasized its contrasts, and even created, amazingly, a genuine air of tragedy. While...

Author: By Jeffrey Coss, | Title: Munch Conducts the BSO | 3/14/1966 | See Source »

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