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...moral people are explicitly religious nor are all religious people moral. But the founding leaders no less than the Puritans, connected vice with sin, virtue with godliness. In his Farewell Address, George Washington said of the tie: "Religion and morality are indispensable supports ... great Pillars of human happiness ... [the] firmest props of the duties of Men & citizens ... And let us with caution indulge the supposition, that morality can be maintained without religion...
...Fred Jewett '57, dean of Harvard and Radcliffe admissions, seems to have the firmest idea of the issues the group should consider. He wants the group to discuss what criteria should go into the selection of the class, especially considerations for "disadvantaged portions, minority groups, and an optimum balancing of men and women...
...large, however, the Front remains hidden--even from its firmest supporters, the students. The National Autonomous University of Nicaragua (UNAN), located in the northern city of Leon, is a center of resistance to the government. A Latin American tradition, not yet violated in Nicaragua, protects the autonomy of the university, and the corridors and walls of UNAN are papered with posters and literature supporting the Sandinistas. The students tell a North American visitor that perhaps 80 per cent of them are socialists and anit-imperialists. The students are primarily from middle and supper-income backgrounds, although slightly less so than...
Jane Fonda represents the film's firmest break with tradition: a strong, defiantly contemporary Nora. Hers is not a thoroughly shaded interpretation -it is a little too direct and aggressive 73151;but it is a great deal more interesting and closer to the mark than Claire Bloom's airy Nora, a stage performance recently translated to film (TIME, June 18). One thing Fonda manages well is the delicate transition behind the closed bedroom door. As in the play, we do not see Nora change, but when Fonda comes out again to confront Torvald and prepare to leave...
...most enduring articles have always been on the few films he loves, while he has been quick to trifle with or even denounce the imperfect nascent films so influential in the development of a classical style like Bergman's. In dealing with the classical, he is on his own firmest ground, and in his Bergman book Simon is willing, for the first time, to take his stands, in relation to--not merely above--other crities...