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...such cases are complicated by the very nature of the parents' refusal for consent. That is, the decision has implicit overtones with regard to the questions of church vs. state supremacy and rights assured by the First Amendment...
...think, is that Godard is a militant filmmaker before he is a militant, and I'm afraid that much of his theory is more personal rationalization than revolutionary program. His critique of conventional political cinema is certainly well-taken, as is his contention that all film form has implicit political content. But that is a symptom, not a cause. The way to attack the problem is not to make isolated films that happen to be ideologically justified and then go unseen...
...Funeral customs, diplomatic protocol, astrology as a historical phenomenon, and the treatment of children are all bizarre little sidepaths that serious scholars rarely explore, yet their unusualness makes it easy to sustain interest in them for a few pages. His thumbnail sketches of those sorts of topics illustrate an implicit thesis about the way things were in Victorian England, or wherever. These essays don't prove his thesis, but they flesh it out, and they are, as a group, a remarkably pleasant way of presenting supporting evidence. Far pleasanter for example, than the charts and tables historical demographers are forced...
John Getsinger '73 opened the series with a portfolio of photographs of Lowell, Mass. In the angle of his shots of Lowell townspeople--two muddy boys, a glowering tavern keeper with a criminal record, a girl still in her robe--the photographer's presence is implicit, but not intrusive. Getsinger's apparent intimacy with his subjects has enabled him to communicate their expressions and their relationships to their environment directly; his pictures lack the stiffness, posturing or distance which are hazards of this type of photography. The immediacy of Getsinger's photographs is further underlined by the prosaic, sometimes ironic...
...could bring a change in Faculty organization is the professionalization and expansion of President Bok's office. If the departments begin to lose their autonomy, the Massachusetts Hall bureaucracy, and not the student body, will be the heirs to their power. The budget currently gives the Administration an enormous implicit leverage and their professionalism gives them a predilection to use it. If that leverage still isn't decisive it is growing in importance, and with the current squeeze on the budget the men by the till are becoming more powerful...