Word: rooms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...citizen who is 21 by the time of the election, has lived in Massachusetts for a year, and has lived in Cambridge for six months, is eligible to register in Room 308 at 362 Green...
Moody and brooding, Room at the Top looks critically at the struggle for social success in an English manufacturing town. In doing so, it not only condemns class structure, but at the same time attacks class consciousness by proving that its hero's flaw is one of fighting status rather than ignoring...
...Room at the Top progresses, it focuses increasingly on the hero's motives and finds them increasingly wanting. What is originally seen as a commendable drive to better oneself is finally shown to be only a tragically petty battle against tragically petty people. For each rise in the climb to the top, there is clear evidence of the personal deterioration of the hero...
Much of the power of Room at the Top can be attributed to the skill in which the scenes are juxtaposed. The movie moves from dingy urban flat to imposing country house, continually emphasizing the incongruity of the two. Supportingly, Harvey moves from bare emotion to cool calculation as he lives, in turn, with his mistress and his cold dream...
...complacent country that doesn't care and a President who is afraid we'll go broke if we get decent urban renewal, adequate school facilities," and up-to-date public works, Harrison A. Williams, Jr., told the gathering of about 75 students and guests in the Lamont Forum Room...