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Students Come First. Just how much Kirk's retirement will ease tensions is not at all clear. The student Strike Coordinating Committee insists that its argument is with university policies, not personalities, and that "the board of trustees still remains in absolute control of our university." Acting President Cordier...
Substandard dialogue and music can sometimes be forgiven, though not enjoyed . But The Golden Screw is unforgiveably inane because Sankey looked at the world, saw that it was not perfect, and plugged in the easiest wrong answers. Protest songs and rock music are hardly decadent--they represent a social and...
Henry started his reign in 1509 as a handsome, strapping 17-year-old, seemingly the perfect embodiment of the chivalric tradition. A superb sportsman and a gifted musician, he also could hold his own intellectually in company with those lights of Renaissance humanism, Erasmus and Thomas More. Yet he grew...
Chabrol describes himself as "not pessimistic about people in general, but only about the way they live." The background of his films show an avaricious and innately destructive world of monstrous and banal people. It is, for the most part, only background, and the films are more specifically about complex...
No Secret. For many Frenchmen and foreigners alike, the dismissal confirmed the impression that De Gaulle's recent brush with near-disaster had not made him one whit less willful or arbitrary. There also was concern about the future course of De Gaulle's policies. The general has...