Word: perfectible
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Blue Angel. Perfect to contrast to the above. One of the most sensuous movies ever made. You can't hurry this picture--you have to let its pace wash over you slowly, and feel the real, physical undercurrent beneath the stern languor. Set in decadent cabaret Weimar; made in 1930 by Joseph von Sternburg. With Marlene Dietrich and Emil Jannings...
...take this matter of admissions procedure mentioned at the outset very seriously--perhaps particularly so because I was a student at Yale in its first years of coeducation. I watched the Yale administration, after a stormy first year of marriage, refashion its female student body in the perfect image of a wife. It is inevitable that whoever sits in judgment will select students according to those qualities he or she most esteems. But at present, I think that female applicants will fare better if the eyes of the beholder belong to someone likewise born female...
...otherwise scrupulously shaded and controlled. Most impressively, Director Louis Malle (Phantom India) does not soften or sentimentalize Lucien, neither judges nor justifies him. Malle's voice is hard and even, his attitude toward his young protagonist understanding, yet cautionary. In Lucien's story, Malle has found a perfect metaphor, direct without being strident, subtle and urgent at the same time. As with Lucien, the foundation for national tragedy is laid quietly, and is built upon with a terrible ease...
...little connection between Anya Savikin, a brilliant, laughing young medical student who lived in Vilno, Poland, in the late thirties, and Anya Meyers, a sour 52-year-old housewife glumly sitting out a marriage in New York in 1973. Each day-to-day progression in three decades has made perfect sense, but at some unnoticed point the time traveler has passed through a looking glass and become unrecognizable to her past selves...
Today's contest should be no exception. Columbia is even worse than usual and seems headed for a perfect 0-9 record. Princeton trounced the Lions 40-6 last week, and if the weak Tigers can win by 34, then Harvard should have about as much trouble handling Columbia as Batman had with the Joker...