Word: silents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...practical terms, the Presbyterian policy was partly based on the delegates' unspoken perception that acceptance of homosexual practice as an alternate Christian life-style might cause rebellion among rank-and-file members of the church. During the political maneuvering, the church's liberal patriarchs were silent for the most part, and its conservative Evangelicals launched their most effective campaign in a generation...
...that summary sounds oldtimey, it should, for it outlines a silent film made in 1923. It failed then, largely because its writer-director did not also star in it, there being no place in the movie for a sweet little tramp. Now A Woman of Paris can be seen for what it is: one of the loveliest expressions of Charles Chaplin's genius a sort of last gift from that troublesome man turned legend...
...will take the first semester of next year off(as he originally planned), to complete three books: Cinematic Analysis, a textbook for analyzing film structure; Theory of sound film, about how sound relates to images; and a monograph on Dziga Vertov, a Soviet revolutionary, avant-garde filmmaker of the silent era. He will also publish a recent interview he conducted with Orson Welles, whom Petric considers the greatest American filmmaker (though one who has been neglected...
Next spring, Petric hopes to teach a smaller course in either the evolution of silent cinema, or avant garde cinema. As a result of the combined promises of President Bok, Dean Rosovsky, and the Luce Foundation, he hopes to see the Carpenter Center purchase new 35-millimeter equipment, thus enabling the study of the newest films and allowing current filmmakers to introduce their works at Harvard...
...being filled with wonder at the man who could seemingly do anything and justify it to himself and then have the nerve to try to justify it to me. Who can forget the perspiring Nixon fumblingly pointing to the map of Indochina, identifying the Parrot's Beak for the Silent Majority to ponder and nod their heads and say yes, yes, Mr. President, cut the tumor out and save our boys? Who can forget the careful arrangement of the set--a flag in one corner and a bust of Lincoln, flanking the original talking head himself...