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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Computer consoles for nightly undergraduate use will be installed in three Houses and in Sever next fall, following a recommendation of the eight-man Faculty committee chaired by Frederick Mosteller, professor of Mathematical Statistics...
...uptight best as the up-from-the-ranks commissioner, so righteous that as a cop on the beat he sent back the butcher's Christmas turkey. Richard Widmark is engaging as the detective who lives "on the arm"-accepting all "police discounts." The skillful, dramatic use of Manhattan-indoors and out-should gladden the heart of Mayor John Lindsay and further his campaign to put a movie crew on every street in Fun City...
...special effects as reality: after we have seen a stewardess walk up a wall and across the ceiling early in the film, we no longer question similar amazements and accept Kubrick's new world without question. The credibility of the special effects established, we can suspend disbelief, to use a justifiable cliche, and revel in the beauty and imagination of Kubrick/Clarke's space. And turn to the challenging substance of the excellent screenplay...
Bowman's complex act parallels that of the australopithicus: his use of the pod ejector to re-enter the craft was improvisational, the mechanism undoubtedly designed for a different purpose--this referring to the use of bone as weapon-tool. Finally in committing murder, Bowman has essentially lost his dehumanization and become an archetypal new being: one worthy of the transcendental experience that follows. For the last part of the film, we must assume Bowman an individual by virtue of his improvised triumph over the complex computer...
Second, Dr. Coles accuses radicals of desecrating the memory of Martin Luther King. Yet let us remember that King called not simply for non-violence, but for non-violent revolution. It is now fashionable for liberals to use King's rhetoric to inhibit action for liberasl to use King's rhetoric to inhibit action for change. Leaders like President Johnson decry black violence but continue the violence of white America against blacks and against the Vietnamese people. It is these men who desecrate King's memory...