Word: hardes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Turning its attention momentarily from the problems of Harvard College to those of its own budget, the Student Council is attempting to provide for itself some measure of financial security, and is having a hard time doing it. The latest plan of a subsidy from the Administration seems likely to be turned down by the Dean's Office. With this, the Council, despairing of support within the University is considering applying elsewhere for assistance...
This last is the point of the return of Jimmy's wife, which is motivated less metaphysically by their powerful sexual love. It is hard to imagine any other motivation being sufficiently strong, for Jimmy is a bad lot: a slander-mouthed railer, a malicious, nasty, monstrously selfish barbarian, and a bit of a paranoiac as well. His creator views him with a bracingly cool eye, never veiling him in a romantic haze, never losing his objectivity, explaining but not excusing. Since the author never loses sight of the fact that his hero is a "bloody bastard," the audience...
Finally, under the present system, room prices do not, in many cases, correspond to the attractiveness of the suite. Another Administration official pointed to the difficulties involved in establishing a realistic rent scale. It is very hard, he said, to judge the relative importance of size, view, location within the House, nearness to a busy street...
...looks at life on the seamy side that Tati has his grandest inspirations. There is a marvelous sequence, apropos of nothing, in which a dog leads a man on a leash. Yet surely the funniest passage in the picture is the long slow crescendo of comedy in which four hard-eyed, ten-year-old gamblers squat in an empty lot, whistle at passing pedestrians, and make book on which of them will look around, forget where he is going and crash into the nearest lamppost...
...revise-what seemed love is suddenly revealed as the very inability to love, what seemed a wise or manly action toward a friend is seen as the fatal inability really to be close to anyone. Eaton achieves futility and failure in his middle years as others by hard work and determination achieve success. In a memorable finale, Alfred Eaton, the poor little rich boy of 50, is pictured killing time at the fashionable New York clubs, compulsively seeking out the company of older men, and slowly but surely earning the contempt of his second wife...