Word: actions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...political lines predominating in recent Faculty meetings. Before May released his announcement, he circulated it among a variety of Faculty members, and received encouraging comments even from some professors usually most resistant to political change at Harvard. The detailed series of questions which May put to the Houses-should action-oriented or vocationally-oriented programs be given credit, for example-aroused some opposition from Faculty members who mistook them for specific proposals by the Dean when they were made public. This initial flare-up-only a small one in numbers, it seems-has now mostly quieted: by and large...
...crisis came to a head at the beginning of the Elk basketball season, when Yale insisted that it would let Langer ruled ineligible by the NCAA because of his participation in last summer's unsanctioned Maccabiah games-play for the Blue varsity. The NCAA took no overt action after Langer's participation in contests with both Fordham and Connecticut, but after he played in an Ivy game, the ECAC issued its ultimatum at its meeting Wednesday in New York...
...quality of ideality that informs every action depends on the film's even pace-but also on its soft lighting, its gentle depth, its unity of space within the frame. All these devices contribute to the unity and flow of the action. This total integration, though it lasts through the film, does not remove emotional intensity from the ongoing action. It rather lets every incident and every gesture assume tremendous weight for no formal structure opposes the actions within the frame...
...some definite comment on Menjou's character greatly enlarges the weight of his gesture, draining a world from a hint of sentiment. And Griffith cuts not on the formal qualities of the two shots, or on their content, but on the ideal power that runs through the action of both...
...action of the whole film is so restrained that secondary characters are almost completely absent; Sorrows is simply about the emotional progress of two people. Nevertheless the rare actions of people other than the principals illuminate the situation of the principals without seeming to be bits of business Griffith picked to reveal the central relation of the film. After Cortez has bought his wife-to-be a cup and saucer they stand outside a pawnshop, facing the camera, admiring the cup. A woman comes up to them, takes a look at it, and passes off to one side. We never...