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Harvard has decided to promote a junior faculty specialist in modern French literature, who will become the twentieth tenured woman on the Faculty, officials said yesterday...
...this is the real tragedy of the twentieth century, in miniature. On one side, people with real problems have been duped by ruthless dictators with silver tongues. To maintain themselves in power after the initial takeover, the North Korean Communists have stirred up a hatred of the South and of the United States. This legitimatizes their iron hold on the country and their repressive build-up of force. But on the other side, American "containment" has given the North the perfect excuse for repression--genuine fear. If "containment" can be limited to exactly that and the North Korean people...
WHEN THE HISTORY books come to the twentieth century a long and sorry chapter must inevitably be devoted to the relationship between Israel and South Africa. The chapter, will no doubt be used as a case study in the depths to which governments can sink--a study of the Israel-South Africa bond also provides an invaluable survey of the complexities of modern politics, which, in the end, turn out to be no more entangled than the average murder mystery...
...three-and-a-half hour production of his The Winter's Tale currently being mounted at the Agassiz Theatre, he probably would have suffered a massive heart attack after the first five minutes. But had Shakespeare survived the initial shock of director Paul Warner's very twentieth-century interpretation of his next to last play, the bard would have realized he was watching a very creative mind at work...
...present it at its annual convention in December. In rewriting the script, Young looked at the original court transcripts, depositions, and newspaper articles from the case. The film is already being used in schools and colleges to document the social climate in the border states in the early twentieth century. But its importance for the present is even more pronounced. Watching the cultural conflict between Cortez and his Anglo adversaries brings the audience closer to dealing with its own cultural biases. The tragedy that resulted from the language gap between Cortez and the sheriff underlines the need for appreciation...