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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Terrill's case raises the question of the multi-dimensional scholar, the intellectual who constantly follows new interests and spreads into more than one field. For Harvard, at least, there seems to be no place for a curious mind of this sort, which cannot easily fit into one of the University's well-defined fiefdoms...
...added that the resumption of a national promotion campaign "remains a possibility, although no final decision of any sort has been made...
THESE AMBIGUITIES in the Rhodesian settlement are sufficient to require a quite different sort of agreement, and the front-line African presidents are right to have rejected this one. They do not appear, however, to have rejected the principle of negotiation with American involvement. This is also politically intelligent--Black Africans have nothing to gain from a bloody and protracted guerrilla war nor from the dependence on Soviet aid such a war would require...
...RAINER DESCRIBES IT, she had stumbled onto a new sort of content her old forms could not accomodate--"private experience and the problem of projecting and transforming it." The persona of the performer, rather than the medium of the body, became her starting point. Indeterminate structures gave way to melodramatic narrative. The issue of perception broadened into a concern with media: how to "warp" an audience's view of situations on stage through the choice of medium (printed text, spoken text, film); how to distance blatantly private experience through the interjection of cliche or pop cuture. Work 1961-73 itself...
Albert Maysles freely admits that the film is intended to bear implications for America, but there's something slightly dishonest about the project. Door-to-door salesmen and their customers are among the most disenfranchised people in the country. (Perhaps the only sort of alienation that can match that of men who will take to the road to sell bibles and themselves is the alienation of people who will allow them into their living rooms and listen to their spiels, if only to hear a human voice.) In the Maysles' film, we see only Hunter S. Thompson's America...