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Mill on the Po could have been an excellent dramatization of the conflicts between Italian landlords and tenant farmers at the end of the nineteenth century. Recalling the first formulation of agricultural unions in the Po valley, it is a sharp, artistic portrait of the worker and his overlord. Each wrestles with the other to retain his inherited rights; yet it is clear that both are being beaten by rapid industrialization which forces everyone to abandon the traditional methods in order to survive. For two thirds of the movie each faction moves nearer and nearer to the inevitable clash...
...that can most mercifully be described as undistinguished. Not only was the technique (especially of violist Joseph Schaaf) inadequate, but also the conception of the music seemed stilted. Instead of employing the straightforward, relaxed interpretation that the work calls for, the ensemble tried to make it sound like a Nineteenth Century virtuoso piece. They failed...
...your editorial of the nineteenth, you state: ". . . the Vatican has channels of information that the United States would do well to tap;" as a reason for sending an ambassador to the Vatican. If this is a justifiable reason, it would seem we are admitting that the treason trials of several priests by the Communists were also justifiable...
...Jersy College rolled on through the nineteenth century on the momentum of Governor Belcher's work. It also adopted the name Princeton and developed intense college spirit due to its isolated location...
...been put forward against the proposal, for indeed there are none. All the opposition arguments that we have heard can be summed up in one word: "No" Whether this "No" is the product of unjustified concern for unenforceable morality, or whether it is a vestigial remain of an unenlightened nineteenth century conservatism, is of little importance. What is important is that it exists, and that it is an anomaly in the relatively enlightened social atmosphere of today...