Word: life
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pather Panchali, director Satyijit Ray has recorded certain portions of the life of an Indian family over a ten year period, describing the interaction of the five important characters: the mother and father, a daughter, a young son, and an old sick aunt. Shortly after the beginning of the film, Apu, the son, becomes a central figure, the viewer of the action, the mute commentator. The first we see of him is an eye, which his sister opens with her fingers; and his eye follows the action for the rest of the film, peering over stone walls, looking out from...
Nearly everywhere, differences between the University's stated policy and actual practice--a perpetual falling-short, a hypocrisy of ideals--become evident. The Deans paint a picture of a system of campus life that seems both infallible and utopian, but harsh reality reveals an embarrassing similarity between Penn's methods of guaranteeing the right kind of environment and the technique used in the more successful Eastern finishing schools...
These two facets of life at Penn--the Franklin ideal and the largely self-styled "spirit of Pennsylvania"--show at once both the best and worst of the Philadelphia university. On the one hand there is the recognition of the value of learning as shown in the laudable efforts of president Gaylord P. Harnwell to raise the school's standards. On the other, many students refuse to grow up; this immaturity, born in the undergraduate body and often unwittingly cultivated by the faculty and administration, makes the University of Pennsylvania seem at times like high school revisited...
...Plan E alliance has given Cambridge some of the best local government in the state. But in the never-ending pursuit of progress, the CCA may occasionally forget that many of its programs stand to impose upon people values and ways of life they would prefer to reject, an imposition that could have serious consequences...
...principally through compromise with the independents. But if it regains dominance and shed that check on its action, it is in the position to destroy the social balance of the city. Of the present CCA Councillors, only Mrs. Wise has so far expressed concern for this aspect of Cambridge life...