Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...guys behind me did not seem to be loons. They were no more eccentric than it is fashionable to be in Cambridge. And they were very serious about their discussion...
...tell that any life has been squeezed out in special effects laboratories. Director Richard Donner and the late cameraman Geoffrey Unswerth provide some striking compositions (although the camerawork is far too heavy on rising and dipping crane shots), but Donner puts them together ineptly--whole sequences seem chopped up and hurried, and the images don't flow into each other. Superman is 100% studio hype; is the public so gullible that it can flock to a film because the studio says it's a hit, because Warner Brothers has the money to shove dolls, shirts, lunchboxes and ball-point pens...
...impertinent moral prickling. But one should finally trust and retrieve from this argument the photographs themselves: the best of them -- two pictures of clothes-lines, a glass-topped table, a couple of porches, and one, in the Harcus Krakow gallery, which is merely a bare clean plane of water, seem poignantly vivid, simple, vestigial. They are worth seeing...
...there is more to this statement than meets the eye. Most policy decisions are made through a process which does seem to account for consideration of student opinion. Students are represented on nearly all of the committees which have much to do with governing Harvard. The key, however, is "represented"; by any standards our "representation" amounts to tokenism. Our numbers are always small, and only on advisory committees do we seem to be allowed other than non-voting representatives...
...first, the concept of a conference to bring students from 11 different schools together must seem like a quantum leap from the type of unity I'd been referring to before. However, in association with the lack of unity which I perceived, I noted that we also lack experience, ideas and inspiration. We must not forget that other schools face and have faced many similar problems. By bringing students from different schools together, the conference helps to alleviate the lack of experience and ideas which--separately--students at each of the schools seem to feel. They have solved problems which...