Word: populars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...myths--I doubt whether any moment in history is without myths--but I do mean to suggest that the sixties were a decade that made life hard for a lot of old stories, an age that way full of an awareness of ugly, unavoidable realities...It was not that popular films had suddenly become false, for they had always been false. Just that they had become too false, false enough to upset the old, careful truce between wishes and facts." --Michael Wood, America in the Movies...
...number 15 was Robert Altman, a television refugee with one major picture (That Cold Day in the Park) to his credit. Altman decided to make the film, hired blacklisted writer Ring Lardner, Jr. to do the screenplay, and produced a brilliant black comedy that was a tremendous critical and popular success. M*A*S*H* took the Grand Prize at the 1970 Cannes Film Festival, earned Lardner a screenwriting Oscar, and was nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award...
...Last Supper. Tomas Gutierrez Alea, the Cuban director whose Memories of Underdevelopment was popular in this country, directed this 1976 tale of a slaveowner overcome with "religious humility" who invites 12 black slaves to dinner on Holy Thursday, and casts himself in the role of Christ. Critics have labeled the film a bitter satire, which turns violent and moralistic when the slaves disobey their overseer the next day, trusting in the "magnanimity" of the Count to defend them. He doesn't. This is the New England premiere, and is highly recommended...
Irven DeVore, professor of Anthropology, said his course, Nat Sci 19, is so popular because "there are a lot of people looking for a less demanding, labless, Natural Science course...
...Economics 10 993 Hum 9a 628 Nat Sci 110 504 Soc Sci 160 429 Nat Sci 19 413 Math 1a 412 Fine Arts 13 403 Astronomy 8 396 Chemistry 20a 380 Soc Sci 15a 374 Economics 10, "Principles of Economics," led the College's list of most popular courses again this year...