Word: undergrad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard is not that bad really. Rather than smothering the dissident it more often sharpens individual dramas. The undergrad Pilgrim comes to Harvard, reputedly some kind of paradise, having been elected by a mysterious lottery in Holyoke Center. The problem is to justify one's election. So we see people scrutinizing their lives and working out their personal salvation through the Rank List, among the Young Dems or through civil rights work, etc. And if they also choose to have love affairs, the University is in no position to stop them. Harvard pretty much leaves its students alone...
...offered as a motive for the erection of Humphrey Bogart as a culture hero, then this review could be assured of the same uneducated silence that local audiences give to jokes about meat rationing in movies of the 'forties: or acknowledged with the same smug chuckle of the rare undergrad who recognizes the reference to "red points" for what it is, and hoarsely tells his neighbors of his knowledge. But the unashamed hilarity that attends the Bogart festival at the Brattle is indicative that the greatest part of the audience is as ignorant of their escape into adolescent self-satisfaction...