Word: richardson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bucking Best. As recently as 1960 the party in Pennsylvania was healthy and seemingly growing stronger. David Lawrence, one of those rare bosses capable of combining a strong party organization scandal-free with a administration, progressive, sat in relatively the Governor's mansion. Richardson Dilworth presided in Philadelphia's city hall continuing the reforms started by Joseph Clark. before he moved on to the Senate. William Green the Elder ran the party in Philadelphia, and on Election Day his well-financed cadres produced the plurality that John F. Kennedy needed to carry the state...
.../Theirs but to do and die." It is necessary to remind oneself these days that Tennyson wrote those lines with a straight face. For the poet laureate, the gallant but futile attack at Balaclava was a testimony to human courage. Aided by the hindsight of history, Director Tony Richardson sees the event in another light. His film version of The Charge of the Light Brigade, based in part on Cecil Woodham-Smith's brilliant study, The Reason Why, is a polemical attack on the futility of war and the fallout of greed, blunder and carnage that follows...
...story could have been transmuted into a film of coruscating irony. Instead, Richardson has chosen to subordinate the drama to an illustrated primer on sociology. With facile juxtapositions, he shuttles between the airless, reeking slums and the sunlit gardens of the Victorian aristocracy. The bloody flogging of a sergeant is contrasted with the gleaming comfort of an officers' mess. Richardson sporadically punctuates the action with animated cartoons of the Russian bear and the British lion ruffling the feathers of the Turkish turkey. The animations, done in the style of period Punch cartoons, are wittily rendered by Richard Williams...
Still, the film is not without its incisive moments. Sir John Gielgud as Raglan, puttering about in senescence, flashes a glimmer of the haughty ineptitude that substituted for authority in the Blimpish days of Empire. In one robust, hilarious scene, reminiscent of Richardson's Tom Jones, Cardigan (Trevor Howard) and his lady (Jill Bennett) rush to get undressed. She races ahead-then turns back to help him put of his girdle. And the charge itself is almost entirely successful. The rigid troops move forward like wind-up toy soldiers, under the hypnotic spell of unquestioned tradition. The firing begins...
Allowing Harvard students to be Overseers would require an act of the Massachusetts legislature, and both Richardson and White say they oppose such an action. Richardson said that Harvard students already have adequate channels for expressing their views--through the Faculty petitions, various representatives, and editorials. "The real question is whether ideas and views are heard," he said. "My impression is that Harvard has shown considerable sensitivity...