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...main feature is one or more heroines with impossibly ample bosoms and improbable sexual appetites. Yet, like other shocking films before it, audiences voted with their wallets. The film, shot with a $76,000 budget, made a profit of $6,000,000 and brought Meyer to the attention of Twentieth-Century Fox. The film's success gave rise to legions of imitations, thereby putting a great deal more nudity and sordidness on the screen in the form of scores of low budget, low merit films...
...kidding aside, the MAC is embarrassingly and inexcusably ill-equipped and poorly kept. For a school with as large an endowment as ours, we can afford to renovate the inside of the MAC and install some twentieth century equipment...
When W.E.B. DuBois wrote in 1903, "The problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color-line," he was dealing with the fact that black men in America were treated as sub-human, and he was addressing the inability of the black man in America to obtain justice...
...this American world--a world which yields him no true self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world ... One ever feels his twoness,--an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings ." Will DuBois' famous refrain--"the problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color line"--be just as valid in the twenty-first? I like to doubt...
Throughout his life, Price held numerousgovernment positions, including counsel to theExecutive Office of the President from 1961 to1972 and adviser to the King of Nepal in 1960. Healso served as a trustee at the Rand Corporationfrom 1961 to 1971 and at the Twentieth CenturyFund from 1965 until his death...