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...College will attempt to merge the intellectual with the personal and communal search for values. Ideally, we hope to create a university which is an independent critic of society. That's a far cry, of course, from what the university is now: a center for training and consultation to render more efficient the bureaucracies and professions which run American society...
...Group Three of the Committee of Fifteen and similar committees of other faculties, students and alumni. We therefore think it best that the task of making recommendations on these subjects also should be channeled to an overall committee although we are eager to give our tentative views and to render all possible assistance...
...Cinematographer Giuseppe Rotunno (who also shot Toby Dammit) used tons of smoke, incense and cement dust to reproduce a sense of murky antiquity. Yet there is little doubt that, in scenes like the death of a patrician couple who prefer suicide to inevitable political assassination, Fellini is attempting to render this vast fresco as a giant metaphor for the 1960s. "If Petronius' work is a full-blooded description of the atmosphere of those times," Fellini admits, "the film that I adapted from it is a panorama, an allegorical satire of our present-day world. It is a science-fiction...
Still, a patient render can find what he needs to know from Ziegler. He tells the grisly stories-how the Tartars besieged a Crimean port, for instance, catapulating the corpses of their own plague-stricken comrades over the city walls to infect the defenders. But he also writes clearly of dry demography. A deadly series of floods and bad harvests had left much of Europe's population ill nourished and more susceptible to plague. And he is able enough in suggesting some of the plague's historic results. It permanently helped weaken the authority of the Catholic Church...
...Baudelaire wrote and the picture illustrates, "Life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with the desire to change his bed." In a sudden deluge of customers, the most libidinous patient is Cesar (Yves Montand), a glib, jittery professional thief. The ladies of the house conspire to render unto themselves what is Cesar's-a million stolen francs-with a genteel little murder. But under the international law that protects farceurs, Cesar not only escapes with his life but also with the affection of the chateau's only virgin, Jeanne (Clotilde Joano...