Word: m
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...films obviously reflect my point of view, but I'm not a propagandist...I'm trying to show things as they are, as I see them." --Robert Altman...
...Robert Altman, a television refugee with one major picture (That Cold Day in the Park) to his credit. Altman decided to make the film, hired blacklisted writer Ring Lardner, Jr. to do the screenplay, and produced a brilliant black comedy that was a tremendous critical and popular success. M*A*S*H* took the Grand Prize at the 1970 Cannes Film Festival, earned Lardner a screenwriting Oscar, and was nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award...
...dramatic rise from obscurity seems interesting primarily as an apparent confirmation of the old meritocratic myth--as a demonstration of American society's receptiveness to new, independent ideas and recognition of talent--hindsight suggests the story has a rather different, ironic significance. In retrospect, Altman's decision to make M*A*S*H* can be seen as typical of the approach to American culture that characterizes his film career to date. In making M*A*S*H*, Altman was not confirming the old American mythology at all; he was attacking...
Albert B. Lord '34, Porter Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature who teaches Hum 9a, said he doubted his course would ever grow as big as Ec 10. "I'm delighted to have 628 students," he said...
...They did treat us with respect," Carol M. Imm '80, one of the eight women, said yesterday...