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...convert the Springfield Technical Institute, a vocational school, into a state-run operation. The institute acquired instant academe by moving its facilities to some of the armory's 19th century buildings. The campus now includes parade grounds and handsome fences wrought from melted cannon poured into an artistic motif of pikes and halberds...
...advanced technology. Kubrick is no stranger to the subject: The Killing and Lolita both involve man's self-expression through the automobile; Spartacus's defeat comes because he is not adequately prepared to meet the advanced military technology of the Roman army; Dr. Strangelove, of course, contains a running motif of machines assuming human characteristics (the machine sexuality of its opening titles) while humans become machinelike, a theme carried further in 2001. The central portion of 2001, the trip to Jupiter, can, as an odyssey toward a final progression of man, concern itself largely with Kubrick's persistent preoccupation...
...minute symphony, somewhat more linear and contrapuntal in texture than Hanson's earlier compositions, is based almost entirely on a short motif that is stated at the outset like a question. In the first movement, the probing woodwinds turn it over and over with melancholy reflectiveness, then pass it on in the following five movements to mocking, impatient percussion, urgently flowing strings and declamatory brass. In the end, after it has been explored, expanded, inverted and torn apart, the motif is reassembled not as a question but as an answer, and all the various strands of Hanson...
...association with types of images and varieties of camera movement. Water (in pools, cascades, rivers, oceans) is continually associated with mystery and emotional confusion. It is a barrier, literally separating the characters, or figuratively suggesting their failures of insight. Wire fences, slats, and latticework also recur as a motif of division and isolation. Concrete architectural elements abound in certain sequences, carrying with them an implication of desolation and sterility. Repeated images of speeding trains come to be emblems of the growing disorder of the characters' emotional lives. Similarly, in a film which is built around static compositions and slow, graceful...
...motif reflects the organ's origin more than two years ago in Fisk's Gloucester shop. After design and preliminary assembly there, installation in the Chapel began last March. Fisk has "been working night and day since May" to voice, or tune, its 4500 pipes, John Ferris, University organist and choirmaster, said yesterday...