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Directed by MICHAEL WINNER Screenplay by MICHAEL WINNER and JEFFREY KONVITZ...
...directed by Michael Winner (Death Wish), the film is a long, circuitous and not very edifying trip. Winner and Co-Writer Jeffrey Konvitz go through subplots as if they were exploring the New York subway system: as soon as one begins to get them somewhere, they change to another line. One of the more promising involves Eli Wallach as a cigar-chomping cop who sees Raines' lover as a latter-day Bluebeard...
...Cornell professor, Milton Konvitz of the Industrial and Labor Relations School has written pungently on the subject. His statement deserves quotation at some length...
Does Cornell achieve this aim? Konvitz is not quite sure and apparently more than a little dubious...
With this Emersonian diagnosis, Konvitz proceeds to offer a solution. He writes: "I would like to see serious thought given to the possibility and advisability of requiring two years of General Education, with an emphasis on the Humanities, for all Cornell students. During these two years, there should be a prohibition upon anything that looks 'practical' or vocational or directly related to the bread-and-butter aspect of education...