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...humiliations of everyday life for the 18 million blacks in white-ruled South Africa make a mockery of that boast. Some events make the very realities of repression stand out in particularly bold relief. One was Sharpeville: in 1960, police broke up a rioting mob of blacks in this Johannesburg suburb by firing pointblank into the crowd, killing 69 and wounding 186. Last week South Africa suffered a second Sharpeville. Its name was Soweto...
...directors seem intent on pandering to the yens of teen-agers with such potboiler adventures as Nihon Chimbotsu (Submersion of Japan) and with action comedies centering on everyday life like Turaku Yam (Truck Rascals). Another new trend is toward the realistic documentation of World War II. Advance into the Pacific made use of combat footage shot by both American and Japanese cameramen. Hero in the Sky, a film about one of Japan's greatest wartime aces, may end up violating the postwar taboo on celebrating Japanese feats...
Aside from graphics and expressed political viewpoints, Sevendays represents a real alternative to Time/Newsweek by treating other countries as if they mattered and by focusing on the politics and sociology of everyday life. By refusing to mythologize the rich and famous and by raising basic issues like power and wealth per se, Sevendays promises to become more than a left-wing imitation of those other...
...finished works on the dance festival program took an entirely different tack from Borg's. "Five Aces" by Joyce Morgenroth, guest choreographer for a company from the Five Colleges, and "1-2-3-4-5-6" by Judy Chaffee Black, a BU faculty member, aimed only at being worldly, everyday, even mundane. Both choreographers dressed their dancers in athletic garb and set their work-outs against classical music...
...that kind of illusion. The Kirkland House Drama Society's production of Present Laughter epitomizes Noel Coward's illusion. It is theater that amuses, entertains, and lifts the spirit, but doesn't weigh heavily on the mind. It is a welcome respite from the serious ideas and problems of everyday life...