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...projected trilogy, Hugo Taluncci creates one-third of what may be the cinema's quintessential allegory of fascicm. The first installment of his sweeping triumvirate of panoramas, The Boston Telephone Directory uses the alphabet as the ultimate symbol of enforced order. "A," cries Arnold Aaron, a political theorist who works night shifts at a sausage-stuffing factory to maintain contact with the people, "must come before B. When D comes before C, we face revolution!" Neither a book nor a photograph, this movie walks a thin line between cinema and film...
...would not be made a part (even a small part) of the core curriculum offered to graduate students and undergraduates. Tom Weisskopf and Herb Gintis, both popular teachers with substantial reputations for scholarly research in the Marxian tradition were let go. Demands that the department hire a Marxist economic theorist, passed virtually unanimously at meetings of the graduate economics club, were rebuffed. The writing was on the wall...
Luke Smith is a 30-year-old social theorist who holds a B.A. from Reed College. He is in Cambridge organizing a movement to implement his plan of moving factories to the country...
Died. Dr. Solomon Lefschetz, 88, pioneering mathematician in algebraic geometry and topology (the study of constant properties in changing geometric forms); in Princeton, N.J. Trained as an engineer, Lefschetz turned to theoretical mathematics after losing both hands in a 1910 accident. For nearly 30 years the peppery theorist was on the Princeton faculty, where colleagues called him G.W.F., for Great White Father. He also edited Annals of Mathematics, making it one of the most respected journals of its kind...
Died. Eleanor Glueck, 74, Harvard criminologist and a pioneering theorist on the causes of juvenile delinquency; in Cambridge, Mass. Working with her husband Sheldon, a law professor at Harvard, Mrs. Glueck was among the earliest collectors of statistical data on crime in the U.S. The Gluecks spent more than four decades attempting to reduce typical criminal patterns to scientific terms. Out of their work came scores of books and articles stressing the importance of family environment in preventing juvenile delinquency. Their most publicized effort was the much-criticized Glueck Social Prediction Tables, by which future lawbreakers could ostensibly be spotted...