Word: vito
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University and School Connections: Historical Perspectives. A celebration of the Graduate School of Education's 75th birthday includes talks by Vito Perrone, director, Harvard Teacher Education Programs; and Arthur Powell, former associate dean, GSE, senior associate, Annenberg Institute for School Reform. Gutman Conference Center...
...Vito Pitta, the business manager of Local 6, called the strike a "long and difficult struggle...
...Vito Perrone, director of teacher educationprograms at the School of Education, says he andother faculty members are working to improvecommunication between faculty and students...
...Neither Vito nor the audience entirely understands what's happening to him. All he (and we) know is that he must flee for his life. And therein lies the key to this film's success. For Carlei wants to thrust us into the mind of this almost completely silent boy. He gives us no more information than Vito acquires, in bits and pieces, as he flees to Rome in search of something, somebody -- we're not sure. Carlei's camera is often radically subjective, seeing through Vito's eyes as the boy rushes panicked through the streets. Equally often...
These things we learn in due course: that Vito's sole surviving relative is a small-time crook in Rome; that the dead boy in the cave had been kidnapped by Vito's family and was being held for ransom; that the family's slayers were members of a rival clan (though their precise motives remain obscure). Vito catches glimpses of the dead boy's parents on TV, making anguished pleas for his return. Eventually he feels compelled to make his way to them, and attempts to crawl into their son's bed, into his very life. The moviemakers note...