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...Seminar members from the Republic of Ireland, Denis O'Sullivan and Brian MacMahon, the most important problem confronting modern Ireland is the present partition of the island, which cuts the industrial northeast off from the rest of the island, and divides the Irish population along religious lines...
...International Seminar need some kind of social life. For the younger members of the Seminar it is not difficult to mix with the Cambridge student population, and for older members of the Seminar who have acquaintances here, filling spare time is no problem. The seminar members from Ireland, Brian MacMahon and Denis O'Sullivan, have met relatives, friends, and friends of friends in predominately Irish Boston and must occasionally wonder if they have ever really left home...
Greenwich Village Story is about Brian and Genie, who live together in a borrowed loft. They are painfully in love and hopelessly beat. Brian is writing a book called Get Ready to Crawl. "I don't care who reads it," says Brian. "I just care what it says." Genie is a dancer. She practices on the roof with a plastic geranium for inspiration...
...Brian and Genie live a life crammed with riots ("Hey-you kids coming over to the Square for the fallout protest?"), romance ("So who gets married?") and rationalization ("People call us beatniks. I suppose we do look wild."). For kicks there are marijuana orgies, round-robin poetry readings, coffeehouse-hopping. And lots...
...often poetic, and even the acting is haltingly expressive so long as the actors keep their mouths shut. Somebody might salvage the whole project by dubbing it into French, blocking in a set of sophisticated subtitles, sending it to Cannes and smuggling it back under the title of Brian et Genie...