Word: perrins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...care and tenderness in this Italian film adapted from a novel by Vasco Pratolini. The pace is lento, sometimes troppo lento, but the color photography tactfully subtends the mood of green and yellow melancholy, and Director Valeric Zurlini develops a very real and moving relationship between the hero (Jacques Perrin) and his older brother (Marcello Mastroianni). It is fascinating to watch Mastroianni, who in his recent films (La Dolce Vita, La Notte, 8½) has emerged as the Clark Gable of existentialism, play a simple, decent human being. He does it well...
According to James M. Perrin '64, head of the project, 12 Harvard and Radcliffe volunteers are presently working with a total of 110 students. These include two fourth-grade classes at the Dearborn School and eight small groups for 10-and 13-year-olds at the Roxbury Boys Club and the Norfolk House Center. The volunteers will give the students books and try to stimulate their interest in reading with discussions and projects...
...Perrin said the long-range goals of the PBH project include proving that college volunteers can be helpful in the public schools and that "kids can't be divided...
...first year of the project, PBH will probably limit itself to 30 or 40 children "at the very most" in order to be able to assess accurately the worth of the program. Perrin is optimistic that the project's first year of success will enable rapid expansion in the future in order to reach more children...
Eventually the project may be able to cover many more youngsters with a well-worked out directed reading program. According to Perrin, the biggest problem is not in obtaining the books, but in selecting the ones which will have the most effect...