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Paisan. Rosssellini's classic neo-realist film of post-World War II. Allied occupation of Italy. With Socrates, made by the Italian master for French TV (a Boston premiere). CENTRAL SQUARE CINEMA II. Paisan: 8:05, Socrates: 6, 10. Portnoy's Complainst. A vile reduction of the mythically pornographic Philip Roth novel about a successful Jewish lawyer and civil libertarian who couldn't help privately pulling his putz. Gone is the gloriously-guilt-ridden self-consciousness of the main character, replaced with the smirk of writer-producer-director Ernest Lehman. PI ALLEY, continuous every two hours from...
Beside such rude behavioral correlations, rarefied debate about whether suicide is justified or not, as well as neo-Stoical huffing about the inalienable right of alienated man to do himself in, seems frivolous. As these books show, suicidology at first seems an almost abstract subject full of piquant and possibly significant details. Dentists, we learn, lead all professions in killing themselves-followed closely by psychiatrists. Women try suicide three times as often as men but fail much more often. April and May, not the dead of winter, are the crudest months; Hungary, not Sweden, has the world's highest...
...member graduate student-faculty committee proposed last month that the department increase its emphasis on Marxist and non-Marxist social theory by including questions in these areas on the graduate-level general theory examination which could be substituted for some of the exam's questions on conventional neo-classical theory...
...department also rejected the Hirschman group's proposal that a special committee be set up which would familiarize itself with the field of Marxist and neo-Marxist analysis and search for non-tenure candidates in this field. Instead, it instructed the existing non-tenure faculty search committee to give "special attention to" candidates in this field...
...those in the department who contend that neo-Marxist economists cannot be judged fairly from a neo-classical framework, this was a defeat. Their contention is clearly something the department wanted to reject...