Word: functional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Glimp spoke to protestors at Mallinckrodt last October--and perhaps achieved a bloodless settlement. The sad fact, however, is that the president of Columbia cannot communicate with his students at all, and was reduced to a surprise show of force. The bloodstains are testimony to Kirk's failure to function as a president...
...pressure of writing recommendations off the Masters and Senior Tutors. But since that itself is so difficult a number of more immediate expedients are being discussed. Some Houses get pre-med and even pre-law advisors to help share the paper work burden, others find that men with no function but recommendation-writing have a hard time finding a place in the House. A couple of Houses have asked for an extra Assistant Senior Tutor on 1/5 time to process applications...
...demonstrators Sunday told the ad hoc committee to "stop trying to perform a mediating function . . . and take a political position" in favor of the demands including the general amnesty...
Soyinka's play circles this situation at inordinate length, talking to itself. The talk is at its best in the satirical back-and-forth among the dictator's six stooge councilors, whose function is to carry on "disputations" in order to arrive at the correct political interpretation of whatever matter is at hand. Sometimes the talk climbs into the foothills of poetry, as in the rich rodomontades of the grey-bearded tribal chief, played with ferocious gusto by Douglas Turner, the company's artistic director. But for the most part, Soyinka's language is clotted...
...film (first prize, dramatic division) came on, George Lucas's THX 1138 4EB (USC), which is as dazzling as advance reports (Newsweek's, among others) had suggested. Lucas's premise comes direct from Alphaville and 1984: in a computer-run dehumanized society where everyone is numbered and serves a function, one man is in undefined revolt. The entire action of the film consists of his running through endless corridors, largely seen through computer monitors. The idea is simple and effective, and extraordinarily well filmed; the initial shot of the rebel, THX 1138 4EB, running toward the camera of a closed...