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...Patron Saint. Students pack lectures on Marxist philosophy, political science, sociology and economics-not only at such well-known leftist strongholds as West Berlin's Free University and the "Red" French universities of Nanterre and Vincennes but also at Catholic institutions like Belgium's Louvain or Nijmegen in Holland. Publishers have found a vigorous market for works by and about a variety of Marxists: not only such dogmatic mainstream interpreters as Lenin and Mao, but a host of differing theoreticians, ranging from Leon Trotsky to former Czechoslovak Communist Party Leader Alexander Dubcek, who was toppled...
Marx has become the oft-invoked patron saint of a new style of far-left political activism. There are at least 800 left-wing organizations in Western Europe, operating outside-and often directly against-the established Communist and Socialist parties. Although these organizations vary widely in strength and strategy, they are clearly different from the ad hoc fronts that united the rebellious students who took to the barricades in Paris, Rome and Berlin in the spring of 1968. Essentially romantics, those earlier revolutionaries took their inspiration from Berkeley and Columbia. If they carried the red flag of Marxism, they seemed...
...close Grollier's," commented one patron yesterday, "would be worse than closing University Hall--only it's more human in here...
...Rousseauian utopia, mars the simplicity of the tale just as badly. Treating the legend of St. Francis as a Christian fairy-tale might well have served Zeffirelli's artistic talents better than this poorly conceived Whole Earth Catalogue of the life, loves and politics of Italy's patron saint...
OTHERWISE, it's quite standard. The movie is a twice-removed flashback, with homage to the traditional modes of segueing into that flashback. The first scene, a shelf of books moves slowly back into an entire library. A patron seeks a certain book. There is a story behind the book. Our story. The head librarian becomes wistful, his voice wavy and echoed. We have a movie. From there, we descend once more, from a trial room, into a set of vignettes, each brought on by slow close-up of a portable tape recorder, as the dreamer's voice is raised...