Word: straightforwardness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...suitors in their fight for Rosalie is the organizing theme of the early scenes. The camera reveals Cesar and David through her eyes, as she makes mental comparisons, and the tension is akin to that which accompanies long-winded introductions at championship fights. In this corner, the brusque and straightforward color of Upward Mobility. In the other, the precious and enigmatic allure of Aesthetic Sensibility...
Tall, gray-haired, the picture of a diplomat, Bruce combines a straightforward analytical mind with an urbane sense of humor and an elegant appreciation for wines and art. Son of a former U.S. Senator from Maryland, he went to Princeton and the law schools of the universities of Maryland and Virginia. At various times he was elected to both the Maryland and Virginia legislatures and was a banker and manufacturer of parachutes. During World War II he directed the European operations of the Office of Strategic Services, the U.S. foreign intelligence unit. After the war, Truman appointed Bruce, in quick...
Harvard University is a feudal institution that makes the Federal government look like a model of open and straightforward efficiency. Reforms are badly needed. To many, however, the idea of striking against the University is horrifying. The free intercourse in the marketplace of ideas is ruined by a strike. And what happens to academic freedom when students and faculty are prevented by picketers from entering classrooms? The objections...
...obviously feels the conflicts they express, and their mimes and mimics seem to grow from their subconsciouses. The most compelling of these is a stylized reproduction of Ammon's rape of his sister that juxtaposes Absalom's revenge upon him. Touches like these take the play far beyond the straightforward narration in the script...
...University's cooled relationship with the government has a number of different facets, and we cannot lament equally the demise of all them. Federal grants for special projects in engineering and in some of the applied sciences have always had a straightforward contractual aspect. Basically the government bought certain types of immediately useful research, and we can only be pleased by the end of the conditions that prompted a demand for bombing studies and airplane design. But it is worth remembering that these have so far been the least affected area within the University...