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...traditional 1950s family hears a series of messages from God on the radio. The movie uses the messages from God to emphasize the power of mass media in American life, Hoberman said. The Hollywood producers during the Cold War were growing aware that their movies provided a social function, Hoberman said. Action and war films during the early 1940s had catered to an excited, militant public. In the 1950s, that action was replaced by the tranquility of the homestead amid fears of nuclear war. Only a miracle, such as the voice of God in “The Next Voice...
Walsh will not shy away from mixing and matching lineups to reflect recent performance, a function of Harvard’s depth and versatility in 2007. Gone are the days when plodding mashers like Schuyler Mann ’05 and Josh Klimkiewicz ’06 occupied infield power spots and strong-armed specialists like Brown and Lance Salsgiver ’06 entrenched themselves in athletic-need positions that suited their talents...
France is the land of public service par excellence, where a whiff of sacrilege still adheres to the very notion of privatizing basic infrastructure. Trains, hospitals, universities and pensions are all largely state provisions. But water--a sector that remains a function of municipal government in 90% of U.S. cities--is the almost exclusive domain of two companies, Suez Environment and Veolia Water...
Student Affairs Committee Chair Michael R. Ragalie ’09 and former UC Representative Brian S. Gillis ’07-’08 both said they feared that taking this function away from the UC would render the body completely useless in the eyes of students, many of whom they think see party grant allocations as the UC’s only purpose...
...When university faculties are unwilling to take a stand on what constitutes the undergraduate experience for students, on what, if anything, somebody needs to function in today’s world, they license a position that all ideas are equally valid,” he said...