Word: socials
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Professors and students in the College and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences received the green light yesterday for applying to the Defense Department-sponsored Cambridge Project for social and behavioral science grants...
...that the development of computer based techniques and substantive research was important for the future of the social sciences at Harvard...
...should create a committee, including some people not primarily interested in the particular kind of work envisioned in the Cambridge Project, to develop plans for Harvard participation in this area, to seek diversified funding, and to consider policy and ethical issues which may arise in connection with computer-based social research and data banks...
Indeed, Seastrom made a remarkably calm film from a rather violent novel. largely by establishing and developing unified situations. The opening sets the scene and its characters in one long track along the village street. moving back as Puritans walk to church. To establish a social milieu Griffith would have cut between different characters. their homes, their personal peculiarities. Seastrom needs only one long shot that shows the Puritan villagers in a characteristic action and place. He uses the setting strongly and gives us masses of people never developed as characters. This leaves the drama far fewer contending moral...
Here he loses the variousness of tone and emphasis in Hawthorne and Griffith. He builds a drama of natural behavior in a specific social, rather than ideal, setting. Griffith's abstractions and idealization disappear and with them the need to assault the audience with quick cutting to put across the characters' emotions. A much more direct realization of his material characterizing Seastrom's work. makes this work simply a powerful rendition of a story of thwarted love...