Word: givens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...idealizes the actors' faces and bodies to yield the essence of a sentiment. Different kinds of shots (dynamic severely-lit low-angle, balanced light-flooded eye-level) are used moment by moment to change the film's emotional emphasis. As in Birth of a Nation, even single shots are given several emotional directions by the placement and movement of the several characters. The subject of this drama is individual sentiment; its type, melodrama, whether historical (Mary of Scotland), social (Tobacco Road), or familial (How Green). Society exists only as the sum of individuals' actions and sentiments...
Therefore, "given the system as it exists, criminal trespass was not an inappropriate charge. But criminal law needs to be reformed. It really needs to be reformed more than any other body of law today. The criminal process is not intended to look a the big picture. It distorts reality by focusing on a small corner. It therefore works badly in these political-legal cases because it doesn't permit taking into account the motivations of the actors in the drama." But once again, Flym the political idealist clashes with Flym the hard-nosed lawyer. "I guess it would...
Three Harvard lacrosse players were named to the All-Ivy first team, and four others were named to one of the other two teams or were given honorable mention by the Ivy League coaches last week...
...prizes are given annually in honor of Dana Reed '43. Reed, who was an officer of the Harvard Album, the CRIMSON, and other student publications as an undergraduate, was killed in European war action...
...since strikes and other construction delays may hold up Mather's opening until Christmas, all the freshmen assigned to Mather have been given temporary assignments in the other Houses...