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...Sweden of the early '60's as a leader of young directors agitating against escapist cinema, for much needed social analysis, and was one of the first to attack the metaphysical hokeyness of Ingmar Bergman. He criticized Bergman's social aloofness and practice of "vertical cinema." in which the select existential few grapple with the narrow prospects of exhalation or degradation. Widerberg sets up an impressionist. ethereal lightness as the direct antithesis to symbolic heaviness and stark religiosity. Bergman's artificial lighting comes almost invariably form on high to dramatize each Meaningful Truth (or Mystery) revealed by a superior Creator...
...list, the first comprehensive compilation of remaining contenders, began circulating among select faculty and student groups two weeks ago, after the Corporation gave copies to members of the Faculty Council and University Committee on Governance...
Each year, thousands of U.S. high school students lunge for that brass ring of academic success: high scores on the College Entrance Examination Board's aptitude and achievement tests. Those who average more than 650 (maximum: 800) go to the head of the admissions line at 900 select colleges, ranging from Harvard to Harvey Mudd.* But do the largely multiple-choice tests
...member of the power structure at Harvard, von Stade has destroyed the illusions of women in Harvard-Radcliffe. We are encouraged to believe that we are among the select few who will be allowed to become active participants in our society only to meet with institutional discrimination in undergraduate and graduate admission, in faculty hiring and promotion. We are encouraged to think of ourselves as having the power to define our own lives-only to meet with Harvard's definition of us as excluded by our sex from fulfillment of our individual and social potential. Von Stade makes very clear...
Although the Tigers should not challenge the Crimson's undefeated record, a Princeton upset today would be especially costly to Harvard. The NCAA District 1 selection committee is meeting Saturday after the soccer games to select four teams for the New England playoffs...