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...Max Riebenfeld...
...recognized, with less glee, that "The University is by design and effect the institution in society which creates discontent with existing moral, social and political institutions and proposes new institutions to replace them. . . . The University is inherently a disruptive force." To preserve these inherent qualities, Professor Lipset adopts Max Weber's convictions, and argues elsewhere that, while value-free scholarship can never be fully realized in the social sciences, the ideal must be pursued. While it is fine for individual professors to be political advocates, such commitment must be separate from their scholarship and the spirit of the university...
...possessed a town house with painted ceilings and marble fireplaces that he rather hated and a charming wife in Schiaparelli originals whom he loved, and he showed off both. Parties the Clarks gave and attended were exercises in name-dropping: Noël Coward, Max Beerbohm, Arthur Rubinstein, T.S. Eliot, Winston Churchill...
Like other famous closing scenes - the frozen frame at the end of Truffaut's The 400 Blows, for instance, or the camera moving down the long line of waiting men in Max Ophuls' Lola Montez - this one is made with a flourish of virtuosity. The sequence is accomplished in a single stunning shot, which goes from Locke's hotel room slowly out into a town square and back again to the win dow of the hotel. The elements shift and change, but the moving camera gives them continuity. Without a single cut, the scene lasts seven minutes...
Works of Brahma, Schubert and Beethoven; Max Sung, pianist, Adams...