Word: standards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...retire to the dubious pleasures of writing our senior theses, leaving these pages to the ministrations of our junior partner (the new "DeWitt"). Before we do, however, we thought we would discard our collective identity and unveil our private obsessions about movies. Ordinarily we might produce the standard lists of the year's 10 best films. But since we found it extremely difficult to name ten good movies from last year, decided to present two different lines on the ten best films ever. (Or rather, our 10 favorite films). So here, in no particular order, are mine...
...French comedy, the films of Preston Sturges did for American comedies of the 1930s and 40s. Though he is an explicitly non-political director Sturges's comedies constantly explode the key assumptions of American ideology. To explore their internal contradictions, they use absurd resolutions to undercut both their standard form and premises. He thus stands in direct contrast with Hollywood comedy directors, especially Frank Capra, whose work always ended up uncritically reaffirming the nostrums of American ideology. Though Sturges's other films, such as The Great McGinty, The Palm Beach Story, and Christmas in July say more about problems like...
...does the stale conception of a lecture as an active speaker and a passive audience stand up under fire. Besides the standard question-and-answer period there are many new variations on the lecturing form that keep the audience from drifting off. At the Common Stock Restaurant, 39 Moody St. in Waltham you can participate in a "speakerless speakers series" every Monday night at 7:30, so-named because no one person coordinates the discussion. This week's topic covers nonviolent games, and the audience will be invited (don't ask by whom) to try several of the games...
...billion. From London, Chairman David Steel, an affable Oxford-educated lawyer who is a tough negotiator, oversees a global empire. It embraces more than 650 production, refining and marketing subsidiaries in Europe, the Middle East and the U.S. (where BP has a production partnership with Standard Oil of Ohio for Alaska's North Slope oil and owns a quarter of Sohio...
...they were crabgrass which might contaminate the straight and true Harvard Man; they have seen the absurdity of this picture, and have tried reason, to no avail. The administration is continuing to destroy the remaining shreds of unity, to merge us into the faceless mask that produces the new standard Harvard-Radcliffe person. But if Harvard has its way, certainly these people, and probably the College, will be the poorer for it. Christopher M. Holt...