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Arrow developed the "Impossibility Theorem," which demonstrates in principle that no political system can perfectly reflect the wishes of the electorate. Using elementary mathematical techniques. Arrow first developed the theorem when he was a fledging assistant professor at Chicago two decades...
DECAMERON Pier Paolo Pasolini, an avowed Marxist who makes pallid films of Christianity (The Gospel According to St. Matthew; Theorem), has taken on more than he can eschew. Using ten of Boccaccio's tales, Pasolini twits the church by showing lascivious nuns, self-mocking ghosts, corrupt priests and finally the trials of the painter Giotto, played by Pasolini himself. Giotto was a cornerstone of Renaissance painting; Pasolini plays him as an interior decorator. Boccaccio was famous for his ribaldry; Pasolini is notorious for his vapidity. To adapt the Decameron successfully, a film maker must come to his senses...
This fear was part of the rationale for also seeking to prevent other nations from becoming nuclear powers; but behind that rationale was the more basic theorem that the possession of atomic weapons, even in their nonuse, was an incalculable political asset. In a proliferating world community, the U. S. and the Soviet Union would have grown progressively less powerful and influential; but if nuclear weapons could be kept out of everyone else's hands, the two would continue to flourish. The new application of the balance of power concept was indeed conceived, as Schelling pointed out, in terms...
Director Pier Paolo Pasolini is a film festival of contradictions. An avowed Communist and atheist, he made his most celebrated movie an evocation of Christian drama: The Gospel According to St. Matthew. In his newest film, Teorema (English translation: Theorem), Pasolini takes images of voluptuous beauty and physical love and turns them into a film of suppurating ugliness, most of it unintentional...
...proletariat realizing its historical role. It has no hero except the proletariat itself. It has only one outcome, the triumph of workers. To a Marxist of course this is the scenario of history, so it is obviously valid and objective. Social Realism is in many ways more like a theorem than a complex work of art. It uses the postulates of a particular system of belief in order to deduce a proof that the original beliefs were valid...