Word: grasses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...speech stories, features on the Newport Folk Festival, articles about Congressional hearings, the draft, the peace campaigns, the Lampoon's janitor being beaten up. But it all seems distant, out of reach and somehow totally irrelevant to a life which centers around the green of the Yard and the grass of the River, to a university which serves iemonade on the lawn every Wednesday day afternoon and maintains a "social and information" center with a fulltime staff in Matthews Hall. (The social director, last year a graduate student and this summer a class of '67 Cliffie, organizes mixers, tennis tournaments...
Whatever the direct cause of last week's bloodshed, the underlying malaise in Dixie Hills is obvious enough. Rats and roaches infest every building, plumbing is erratic, owners refuse to make repairs or even plant grass in the dusty, barren areas between buildings. Trash and garbage have been collected irregularly, gaping holes in the streets have gone unrepaired, and recreational facilities have been nonexistent. Most serious, more than half of the younger men are unemployed. "They just hang around the streets," says Richard Freeman, chairman of the board of aldermen's police committee. "The trouble is, nobody does...
...lyrics could have been written by the Czech Tourist Agency, but the melody is better known in grass-roots U.S.A. as On Top of Old Srnokey...
Courage for Every Day. Two lovers meet on a hilltop. In a scene reminiscent of Room at the Top, the camera shows waves of grass rippling idyllically -then cuts to another angle to show the backdrop of an ugly industrial town behind them. The film message is that there is room at the bottom for workers who still believe in the drab clichés of doctrinaire Communism. As the film's central figure, Jan Kačer plays a slogan-spouting, blockheaded factory worker -a model product of the Stalinist old regime. Representing the newer, more relaxed style...
...sensitive as a light meter, Matter, who also wrote the scenario, gains his greatest effects with celebrations of the ordinary: the special glint of Manhattan sidewalks at night, the raucous antics of a flock of gulls, a barefoot walk on the beach, a wave of wind through scruffy dune grass. Implementing the images is a witty, memorable score by Ken Lauber which ties together the film's disparate insights...