Word: isn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tactics. At the proper moment, he orders: "Clap!" They do, and they laugh. Occasionally he tries a little antiphony. "Will you vote for me?" "Yeah," says the crowd. "Will you get your friends to vote for me?" "Yeah." "When people say something bad about me, will you say it isn't true?" "Yeah." "Have you read my book?" "Yeah...
...essence, the debates amounted to a bizarre bull session, frequently floundering in chaos. "The trouble with the world is that youth isn't being listened to and isn't being used," complained Student Alain Bedu. One recurrent and oddly revealing idea-that formal examinations ought to be abolished-met friendly rebuttal from many professors who joined in the dialogues. "Ending exams is not reasonable," said Professor Alfred Kastler, Nobel-prizewinnmg physicist. "You would be the victims. It would lead you and the university to feudal capitalism: selection by the fortune of parents." Students of every persuasion were heard...
Given the tricky and unpolished style and the ultimate anticlimax of the plot, A Dandy In Aspic isn't half bad. Although Laurence Harvey's acting capabilities enable him to register only an emotional strain of the kind plainly treatable with low-level patent medicines advertised on television, several scenes are genuinely moving, conveying the agony of a very trapped and very unhappy man. A secret service conference between Eberlin (Harvey) and his superiors contains some masterful close shots (chiefly of Harry Andrews), and indicates the high level of photographic composition and lighting in the interiors. A later confrontation between...
...lovers, and in The Champagne Murders, border a thin line between the perverse and the insane. A plot, psychological warfare between Yvonne Furneaux and Maurice Ronet over ownership of the brand name of a famous French champagne, assumes only tangential importance in comparison to questions of what is or isn't real, whether insanity or cold-blooded calculation motivates the strange behavior of characters, and the three murders...
...Williams said "Fotis is in a group by himself. I've never seen anyone with such a green thumb for identifying the critical phenomenon and devising the necessary experiment." Williams relates how one of his colleagues, after watching Kafatos present his findings, said "God may be dead but Zeus isn't." Williams used to be one of the heads of the developmental biology course Kafatos now teaches with John G. Torrey, professor of Botany. But "Kafatos is such an enchanting and lovable teacher that I soon realized he could do the job as well as I could, so I resigned...