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Peter Kosewski, a spokesman for Articulture, said the festival came about as a result of the near-unanimous responses to a questionnaire sent to 150 New England dance companies. "One hundred per cent said there is a need for a collaborative program which would remove needless duplication of effort, 100 per cent said there is a need for a concerted effort to develop a dance audience, and 100 per cent said a major problem was the cost of procuring space in which to perform--in a regulation high school auditorium, two leaps puts you in the audience," Kosewski commented...
...wild Romantic, he gives every shot of nature stark religious overtones piled on to the point of silliness. The beginning is obvious but fun. There is no doubt as to what happens to the girls, but there follows more than an hour of ponderous, redundant "evidence," the result of an Agatha Christie-type structure which, Weir irritatingly enough, never fulfills. Weir may be an artist--he certainly makes films that proclaim their profundity--but he seems grounded in camp, and the movie stays shallow...
...feeding information to him selectively so that any prejudices are reinforced and events become distorted in his interpretation. It is arguable for example that the ideology of certain professors in the social sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has tilted to the right as a result of CIA sponsorship and involvement. Much of the information supplied can come only from intelligence sources and its academic recipient can be manipulated by the agency in the same way as a journalist is controlled by a government official who gives him confidential leaks...
...committee's recommendations are a result of careful debate among students and Faculty members, and should be heeded by University administrators...
...Chain of Chance is a variation upon the conventional detective novel--one might call it a murder without a murderer--which he infuses with an inventive twist of probability theory. Civilization has grown so complex, he maintains, that it is governed only by laws of random chance. As a result, the protagonist--and the reader--is alienated from the reality he thinks he can understand and control. In the depersonalized modern world, common sense has become nearly meaningless. The effect is eerie and sobering...