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Wandering from the problem of governmental interference to the peculiar requirements of the British social structure, Lord Lionel Robbins, a noted English economist, yesterday led a packed Littauer Auditorium through a complicated maze of problems and prospects for higher education in Britain...
...system has become so complex and overburdened that the backlog of applications has risen to 200,000, and the average patent now takes at least 3½ years to struggle through the maze...
With his characteristic classically-conceived "modern" forms and blatantly ugly color palette, Giorgio de Chirico depicts his reaction to modern civilization. In "The Nostalgia of the Infinite" (1913-14) the viewer looks up a towering building, isolated and uncommunicative; in "The Anxious Journey" (1913), he sees a maze of arches and doorways, uncommitted and foreboding...
...sycamore trees the most magnificent stand of Oriental plane trees in the U.S. But the biggest hand was for Heart Specialist Paul Dudley White. Dr. White uttered an eloquent plea that Boston "become a brilliant example for the rest of the nation and not just one more maze of speedways to rush people in and out of the city in the current rat race that has infected the country...
...human beings when faith has failed. Pivotal character in the story is the restless, questioning boy Johan (Jorgen Lindstrom), who begins his search on the train by pointing to an unintelligible sign and asking, "What does that mean?" No one can say. Later, as he wanders through an endless maze of hotel corridors, his quest and his confusion seem to be Bergman's own. Johan fleetingly finds comfort in make believe with a troupe of performing dwarfs, then with a kindly old waiter. But always, large-eyed and secretive, he observes the women...