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...case? In recent times, when the world began to lose historical coherence. All those elaborate edifices which were designed to palliate our anxieties about being in the world are now reduced to ruins. Because even the future has been thrown in doubt, our imaginations inhabit a wilderness; Baudelaire's foret de symboles has become a foret d'objets. As Delmore Schwarts observed, "It is a question of the conflict between the sensibility of the poet, the very images which he viewed as the world, and the evolving and blank and empty universe of nineteenth century science." This world has receded...
Gaudete, vos feminae antiquae! O vos fortissimae invictaeque-Susania Antony, Elizabetha Cady Stanton, Elizabetha Blackwell, nostra Elizabetha Agassiz-quae pro suffragio, pro dignitate muliebri, pro educatione puellarum et doctrina quae pueris foret aequa fortissime contendistis. In universitate Harvardiana, in patria, in orbeterrarum, status feminarum plerumque inferior dudum habetur. Mulieres se contemnere didicerunt. Copiae et honores et titulihominibus dati tamen feminis sunt negati . . . Arma nondum licet deponere, meae sorores, nee proeliurn tarn Ion-gum tamque difficile nobis est relin-quendum. Ubique flagrat iniqua virorum dominatio...
...before Commencement, a squad of department chairmen protesting Dean Ford's sanction of Cum Laude in General Studies offers to tear his elegant new residence to pieces. Ford, calling himself "quite fed up with my job, girls in Houses, CLGS, and the whole bloody mess" goes off to the Foret de Compiegnes as Rusk's second. "What an adventure," he sings on returning...
EXETER: A tight suspense film in the psychological vein is Rene Clement's PLEIN SOLEIL. Telling the story of a daring daylight attempt at the perfect crime, the film features spectacular color shots of the Adriatic and Maria de la Foret, and a good acting job by Alain Delon...
EXETER: Rene Clement has created a superior suspense film in Purple Noon. The French title, Plein Soleil (probably best translated "Broad Daylight") is more accurate; the film is concerned with a daring attempt to execute the perfect daylight crime. Color photographs of the Adriatic and luscious Marie de la Foret guarantees spectacular footage, and Alain Delon as the top crook turns in an excellent performance...