Word: selfing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FILM-MAKERS who are also Harvard students eventually encounter a difficult subject: the Harvard Experience. Film being a means of self-expression, kids rightly want their films to be about what most affects them and what they know best. Movies with other subjects-gangster films, horror films-end up as hollow parodies because student directors have no personal involvement in the concerns of the genre...
...best, investigating 6-11 additional Corporation appointees is a self-imposed limitation of the committee. With a mandate to investigate "possible misconduct," the Freund Committee could readily investigate 50 people...
...together that these are at worst minor hitches, and at best strange contributions. Its shortness gives every excess, every idiosyncracy, a function in character establishment. The excessive repetition of line and gesture, for example, makes the characters look a little silly: it balances their very romantic notions and intense self-attention. Humor like this, putting the real sympathy these people evoke into perspective, is a blessing in an art and a college whose method these days is undisciplined over-seriousness
Still he can get no closer to his ideal, and his despair becomes briefly ridiculous and self-parodying: "Although I have the key she gave me, I forgot to ask her where she sleeps at night." Then he becomes tragically resigned, remembering with detachment his love for "the thirty-year-old debutante, whispering to ghosts in the room ...Jacqueline with the past in her eyes."He faces his failure sorrowfully: "It tears a boy's heart away, loving girls who don't care about love. " And he sees others in his own jaded condition; as he tells "morning girl," "Your...
...search for immediate social justice. So much the worse for the universities, some might say. Since, in the real world, efforts by militant moral vanguards to impose a new moral code on an unwilling population have generally led to massive cruelty, there are stronger grounds than mere academic self-interest for rejecting the use of coercion. Nor is it clear that the use of force against deans and professors accomplishes very much toward the reduction of oppressive violence in the larger society. Be that as it may, it is clear that at the level of principle, universities face an insoluble...