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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...politician," which means you've got an in with the warden's office, or you have a "rep," which means people respect you because you wouldn't blink at busting a guy's head open. Or else you're a stoolie. And that means you better be getting a lot of protection from the wardens and the "screws," because with just a moment's diversion an enemy could split your skull and spill your brains with the edge of a metal toilet seat...
...very timely release of this film-as-indictment in the wake of the Greek Junta's 1967 seizure of power in the cradle of democracy paved the way for a favorable reception of Z in the West, but the movie has a lot more going for it besides. None of Costa-Gavras subsequent tracts has come close to capturing the gut-rending tension that glues the viewer of Z to the edge of his seat. Yves Montand turns in yet another tour de force as the pacifist legislator whose brutal assassination triggers the investigation that inexorably leads...
Lewontin shocks a lot of people in the Government and other departments by placing a relaxed atmosphere over "academic standards" but also because of his dogged devotion to his controversial ideas. He holds his convictions so firmly that he feels little need to compromise even if his adamance reduces his effectiveness. During one lecture he said, "I disagree with the theory because it's wrong...
Kihlstrom agrees that the book "tries to make a lot of connections," but may attempt to tie too many disparate ideas together. He says that although much of Jaynes's theory is "speculative," it is also "very provocative," providing "lots of grist for the theoretical mill, whether or not one buys the whole package...
...viewing this as a good way to dramatize there's a lot of material on women that hasn't found its way into the History Department," Carol Lasser, a History graduate student helping to organize the reception, said yesterday...