Word: youths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...never tried to impose our philosophical ideas on the movie." In fact, the film, which is now approximately 3½ hours long, severely alters Ophuls' intention. Many of his interview questions have been cut, along with footage of his family (his wife was a member of Hitler Youth) and of Germany during the Weimar Republic and later in the painful process of denazification. Also excised was a scene of middle-aged Germans, nude in a mixed sauna, discussing their feelings toward Jews. The BBC had particularly objected to the sequence on the ground that pubic hair had no place...
...Fundamentally, Peer is a man unwilling to commit himself to any person or principle, who wastes his years seeking fortune and glory, instead of staying at home with Solveig, the woman she loves him. Peer travels not only from Norway to Africa, peasant's hut to mad house, and youth to old age, but into a fantasy world as well. And the trolls and amorphous spirits he meets alter his life so drastically that the border between reality and fantasy becomes obscure...
Harvey C. Mansfield Jr., chairman of the Government Department, also feels that elements of the "youth culture" have reinforced the barrier between faculty and students. "When I came to Harvard as a freshman, you had to wear a coat and tie in the dining hall. You had to have gray hair to tell the difference between a professor and a student. Now college kids dress like high school kids." When a professor walks into a House. Mansfield, an associate of Eliot House, says, "he feels conspicuous and out-of-place...
...photography as something that he could make respectable. Scorning both the "artistic" and "commercial" examples of Stieglitz and Steichen. Evans forged a new photographic tradition based on typical scenes shot from eye level, usually from a middle distance, and in bright daylight. "Most photographers were very uneasy in my youth and they all were uncomfortable about whether what they were doing was art or not. I never was bothered about that, luckily--mencumbered by that nonsense." Evans always had a firm conviction in "straight" photography. His is "cool, precise as a police report, emotionally aloof," according to John Szarkowski...
...addition Indian youth and young native Alaskans are among the working youth of this country, the millions of men and women who are destined to give a half-country of their lives in labor to this nation, and who deserve more than they are now getting. Also the well-to-do and privileged youth of this country, so many of whom have their own troubles and fears and confusions. Whereas millions their age have virtually nothing they have everything-it seems, except a sense of who they really are and what they believe in. There are many young people...