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...Trojan Horse...
...enrollment is foreign (one of the nation's highest ratios), and a passel of Saudi princes has passed through there. When plans for the center were announced last month to U.S.C.'s trustees, however, Jewish leaders and the Los Angeles Times attacked it as a Trojan horse for Arab propaganda, and the center came under heavy fire from members of U.S.C.'s faculty senate...
...have to ask ourselves whether our geographic position will permit this or that [party or political organization. While the Shah is reluctant to spell out what he means on the record, interviews in Tehran make clear that he is concerned that an aboveground Tudeh would serve as a Trojan horse for the Soviet Union, and the Shah is reliably reported to have worried privately that in some future political crisis, legalized Iranian Communists might seek and get the "fraternal assistance" of the Soviet Union, the way Alexander Dubcek's political enemies did in Czechoslovakia...
Iphigenia at Aulis unquestionably stands as one of the most timeless and powerful of the Greek tragedies. After the Trojan Paris elopes with Menelaus's wife Helen, the Greek kings and their armies converge on Aulis, from where, under the command of Menelaus's brother, Agamemnon, they will sail to reclaim the woman. There is no wind, however, to blow their sails, and the army becomes restless and angry under the intense heat. The prophet Calchas tells Agamemnon that in order for the gods to provide a wind, he must sacrifice his eldest daughter, Iphigenia. Horrified by the idea...
...this is, after all, the beginning of the Trojan war, and that calls for all sorts of cinematic embellishments. Euripides's play, like most good Greek tragedies, is notable for its economy, not of language, but of encounters. The scenes which Cacoyannis writes in are stirringly photographed but dramatically useless, and they seem even more gratuitous when invoking countless cliches. Take the first moments in the film: after the opening shot of a spear and some armor sitting on a rock in the hot sun, the camera rousingly pans the still ships, accelerating as it goes along, and ends...