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...Charles Ryder's comically aloof father in TV's Brideshead Revisited. But he was also, to give only a partial list, the anti-Semitic Cambridge don in Chariots of Fire, Lord Irwin in Gandhi, a doge of Venice in NBC's Marco Polo, Albert Speer's father in ABC's Inside the Third Reich, Pope Pius XII in CBS's The Scarlet and the Black, a crooked art dealer in Sphinx, a German scientist in The Formula, and the British censor who prosecuted D.H. Lawrence in Priest of Love...
...problem arises, he says, not only in making films, but also in promoting them. A member of the New York-based Black Filmmaker Foundation, he describes the strong reaction to the group's screening of the controversial film. "From Harlem to Harvard," by Marco Williams. Many Blacks who saw the movie criticized the unsentimental portrait of a young Black man from Harlem who does not do well at Harvard and eventually leaves school. While the film clearly exposes some of the pressures on Blacks at Harvard, says Hudlin, many Black viewers, especially those who have "made it," were appalled, "There...
...ADAMS Associate Sports Editor Harvard, 17-7 Bucknell, 24-14 Dartmouth, 21-14 Holy Cross, 28-10 Yale, 24-17 2-3 14-14.500 GWEN KNAPP Associate Sports Editor Harvard, 35-14 Bucknell, 28-12 Dartmouth, 17-14 Holy Cross, 31-7 Yale, 24-14 4-1 17-11.607 MARCO QUAZZO Staff Writer Harvard, 35-30 Bucknell, 20-17 Cornell, 14-10 Holy Cross, 24-10 Penn, 21-20 LARRY KAHN, FRANK MUNGEAM WHRB Guest Selectors Harvard, 24-14 Columbia, 27-6 Dartmouth, 17-0 Holy Cross, 31-17 Yale...
...largest Gothic cathedral, St. John the Divine, that soaring seraph of acrobats Philippe Petit, 33, tiptoed to the church across a 250-ft. wire slung 15 stories above Manhattan. The inspiration, notes Dean James Parks Morton, came from an 18th century painting by Guardi depicting circus performers outside San Marco in Venice. Having an aerialist perform, says Morton, "is proof of faith, like nothing else." And he has that on the loftiest authority...
Daniel Boorstin, historian and Librarian of Congress: The Dialogues of Plato, The Travels of Marco Polo, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, War and Peace, Francis Parkman's France and England in North America...