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...first person to say that AFARM isn't the greatest or most successful organization to take root at Harvard. However, they do serve an incredibly important purpose. In an environment where liberals and conservatives write a never-ending stream of serious and solemn articles and letters about homosexuality, feminism or whatever, a whimsical group with strong political views is definitely needed. I think that the political climate at Harvard would be much more stressful without AFARM...
There is little sense, or justification, in trying to convince people that the Holocaust and the genocide in Bosnia are identical; they're not. But if Bosnia does not fit into the solemn declaration of "never again," what does...
Socialist victory ends the class struggle and wipes out the old "capitalist" contradiction between beauty and truth. We in 1994 may get a hoot from Ekaterina Zernova's 1937 painting of collective farmers greeting a tank in a country lane with bouquets, or Aleksandr Deineka's solemn image of Lenin (who was childless) on a country spin in an open car with seven children, thus signifying his fatherhood of Russia. Why do we laugh? Because we do not grasp how, in the words of Towards a Theory of Art by an apparatchik named G. Nedoshivin, once "the basis in reality...
Funerals--even celebrities' funerals--don't make for particularly exciting stories. The ceremonies are usually private, and the mourners solemn, not very talkative...
...actors from director Claude Miller (who, with Luc Beraud, adapted Nina Berberova's novel) and from the actors to the receptive viewer. Safonova is a blond vision of grace under all kinds of pressure. But the fresh revelation is Romane Bohringer, daughter of co-star Richard Bohringer. A solemn beguiler, she perfectly embodies pent-up passivity as it longs for the golden chains of an enslaving passion...