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Associate professorships were approved by the Overseers for three men: William A. Klemperer '50, associate professor of Chemistry; Shlomo Z. Sternberg, associate professor of Mathematics; and Stephen Williams, associate professor of Anthropology. Richard E. Pipes was named associate director of the Russian Research Center, and Richard E. Schultes '37, curator of Economic Botany...
Assistant Professor Sternberg's Match 267 ("Infinite Lie Groups and the Differential Geometry of G-Structures") wont' come till spring, but his more elementary Math 266 (called simply "Lie Groups") meets this term at 10, and the only prerequisite: merely a general knowledge of differential manifolds...
...Sternberg expresses these complex attitudes with practically no dialogue. He still had the silent film director's knack for telling a story with pictures. When Rath glances from Lola Lola to a nude caryatid, or gets entangled in a fishnet which trying to reach her dressing room, pages of conversation could never recreate the moment as effectively...
...Sternberg is a master of milieu most of all: he clutters the stage of the Blue Angel with people, clouds, and animals. The nightclub writhes with activity. So many women are seated behind Dietrich that at first it is difficult to pick her out from her immediate surroundings. This tawdry baroque contracts heavily with the stark, antiseptic hallways at the Gymnasium. Rath has entered a new world...
Dietrich and Jannings turn in fine performances that are vital to the success of Sternberg's visual subtleties. Dietrich makes the plot plausible by injecting enough warmth into her role to justify Rath's falling in love with her. She manages to remain sympathetic until the last sequence and, even in a skirt scalloped up to the waist in front, she maintains dignity. Her singing alone is worth the price of admission. See this film before it's retired...