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...story gives Widerberg a chance to play games in the trees and the grass and the flowers. At times he is successful. The mock gunfight between Sparre and his friend on a huge old tree is a beautiful tableau. When Elvira and Sparre walk up a road, the scene has the haunting quality of a Munch painting. But these two scenes are the only truly fine outdoor sequences that are properly exposed. In the rest, the greens are mercilessly washed out in white light; exposures are nearly always one to two stops...

Author: By James K. Glassman, | Title: Elvira Madigan | 3/14/1968 | See Source »

Frances L. Ansley '69, co-chairman of SDS, read with a mock Southern accent from an interview with a Mississippi Power director. The director admitted that his firm hired very few "colored folks...

Author: By James K. Glassman, | Title: How Many Marxists on Faculty? SFAC Debates Course Diversity | 3/13/1968 | See Source »

...early history of Harvard football is both strange and exciting. The first recorded account of a Harvard football game is an epic poem entitled "The Battle of the Delta." These verses, attributed to Rev. James C. Richmond 1827, sing mock praise of a fierce football fight between the freshmen and sophomores in the autumn...

Author: By Richard D. Paisner, | Title: The History Of Harvard Sports | 3/13/1968 | See Source »

...strong and open draft union here could be one of the most effective ways to oppose the war. Already a Berkeley-based group called Campus Draft Opposition has moved to set up a nationwide draft union among students--calling for "we won't go" pledges and mock Vietnam Commencements to dramatize resistance

Author: By James K. Glassman, | Title: Internal Rifts May Hurt Potential Resistance Here | 2/19/1968 | See Source »

...When he ended, six others came trooping down the aisle bearing a coffin. They overturned it, and out poured hundreds of the Senator's campaign buttons, intended, as one perpetrator explained, to be a "witness to McCarthy's impotence." Peterson, who claimed no responsibility for the mock funeral, was filled with admiration: "McCarthy kept his cool very well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Students: Lessons in Mind Blowing | 2/16/1968 | See Source »

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