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...Steven O'Hara '77, a member of the council, said yesterday some council members felt the dinner, to be held on March 15 "would be a good women's experience." The opponents of the plan argued that it showed "blatant sex discrimination" and that once one group has the privilege, "who's to say that the blacks or Catholics can't," O'Hara added...
Students yesterday expressed various opinions on the proposed dinner. "I think it's a bad action because it's discriminatory," O'Hara said. "Since three-quarters of the students will be excluded I can't speak in favor...
These queries come by way of Welles's films about disillusionment and corruption: Kane, Lady from Shanghai and the incomparably vice-ridden Touch of Evil. Does Welles identify his life with any of the characters he played or created in these works? Like Michael O'Hara, the sentimental drifter in Lady Shanghai, did he decide early that society uses dreamers; has his work since the seminal first films been that of a disappointed, weary and half-serious wanderer? Does he feel for the sort of cynical moral relativism that Marlene Dietrich sums up so jadedly as she watches...
...indirect answers suggest not. When taking up these works, he treats O'Hara and Quinlan like any other "types." "In Touch of Evil, I was all on the side of Charlton Heston," he says. (Heston plays the Mexican sleuth who gets the goods on Quinlan). Besides, he adds, "I'm someone who likes to look...
Welles comes off as a man seeped in, and limited to, a theatrical attitude towards Art. (He never tires of adoring his cohorts.) O'Hara and Quinlan seems to work for him only because they make for good melodrama. When you think about this insight as a guide to his career, it makes sense...