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...virtue. His conservative stands on questions like University discipline, the Afro-American Studies Department and graduate student rights did much to undermine the halting progress being made at Harvard in the late sixties. He threw his weight behind the repressive Committee on Rights and Responsibilities, building a sequestered fortress for the CRR atop Holyoke Center so it could kick out dissidents in peace. He orchestrated the offensive against the Afro-American Studies Department which culminated in the restructuring of the Department in January: even after leaving for Washington, he explicitly retained a hand in appointing the search committees that...
Peter Reich focuses mainly on Orgonon, the 280-acre Maine retreat where his father lived and worked. It was a beautiful though embattled fortress where the boy adoringly watched his father pitting the benevolent forces of orgone against evil forces that he called "dor." There were ominous times. "Daddy put a radium needle in the big accumulator in the lab and everyone got sick. The lab closed, the mice died. People went away." He recalls the day when FDA agents arrived with court orders to dismantle the accumulators. The elder Reich was cooperative but bitterly sarcastic. "I could feel...
...showing the orgiastic tryst as an ultimate failure, the film plays out a moral well within that wisdom. The departure from bourgeois morality lies in the deeper implication that the characters' ecstasy is the fleeting and only hope in a desparate world where women demand that their men be fortresses of strength and men seek protection in a fortress that is their own dominance over female flesh. (Those who decry the film as sexist fail to recognize that the film stylizes and includes all the degeneracies of society, sexism included...
...made a fortress round their feet...
...Satan. But Victor Canning, a master craftsman of English thrillers, has managed to conjure up a variation. He is Edward Shoebridge, a saturnine hunter, a falconer who feels pollution and plastic closing in and coldly uses crime to raise the money to escape to some rustic Scandinavian fortress. His business is kidnaping high political figures in impeccable style. He takes his ransom in uncut diamonds...