Word: stillnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...great director has something more: the vision and force to make all these disparate elements fuse into an inspired whole. In The Seventh Seal, Bergman had Death lead a troupe of clowns, obedient to a will larger than their own, across the dusky horizon to oblivion. The scene, still indelible in the minds of most viewers, somehow lifts cinema into the realm of philosophy, psychology and even religion...
...McLuhan age. How could they miss in the movies? By making The Maltese Bippy, a yawn-in of the team's celebrated videocies and running gags. Though Rowan and Martin are shoehorned into a plot, the fit is loose enough to let the boys play themselves. Rowan is still the smart one, and Martin is correctly addressed as a dingaling, a dumdum and a dodo...
...Penn alumni were impressed by President Harnwell's pitch. Still irked at the Penn sit-in, one man declared: "For the time being I am putting the university on probation and withholding my annual contribution." A Harvard graduate of 1944 was even more bitter. After the spring disorders in Cambridge, he wrote to his class-gift chairman demanding his money back...
...each of the 14 canvases carries something of that breathless, rarefied atmosphere of in sight and abandon in which they were created. More important, perhaps, notes Paintei Andre Masson, they prove that Ernst was a precursor as far as Sur realism was concerned. "While the rest of us were still formulating our ideas, he already had his foot in the door...
...doctrines on criminal procedure, he is not expected to try to dismantle much of the court's work in this or in any other field. Even if the Justice appointed to the seat vacated by Abe Fortas proves critical of the Warren court's decisions, there will still not be enough votes to alter the court's direction significantly. In Brown and Gideon, the court spoke with a unanimous voice. Just one Justice dissented from the ruling that ordered an end to prayers and Bible reading in the public schools and the one that upheld...