Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rather portentously to make his troubled school a metaphor for a sick .world, and fails. Despite the fact that Marasco once taught in a boys' school, he seems not to know that children are astonishingly acute judges of their teachers, or perhaps the knowledge did not suit his plot. At any rate, logic is the last guest to bring to this breath-taking show...
...headless golf shaft that held a "Make Love, not War" placard. With the election only six weeks away, the President (Peter Bonerz) has no time for grief and after another Cabinet conclave the cause of death proves to be Communist food poisoning. That's about all the plot there is, except for numbingly bathetic side trips to dying soldiers in the foxholes of Brazil...
Markham Kirsten '71, representative to East House Committee from Eliot Hall, said yesterday, "This may be the beginning of a subversive plot by Harvard men to take over Radcliffe by gaining offices...
Having widened its scope so far, the plot continues to expand. It reveals more and more faults in American society, but within the conceptions of its time, 1936. This dated viewpoint becomes obvious when the townspeople are brought to trial, and the judge trying to pursue orderly justice is opposed to the bigots in the deck. A man in the audience gets up to support the defendants and denounce the trial: "This is a crying shame against the good name of our town . . ." The judge calls him to the bench and sentences him to ten days for contempt of court...
...social vision. It shows the effectiveness of his direct montage. which ties social conditions together. When cutting away from the trial Lang shows people in three different milicux, listening to a broadcast of the proceedings, before arriving at the person to whom he is cutting. The large number of plot transitions like this one lets Lang create a unique cross-section of society, for his transitions use things that actually tie society together: newspapers, radios, photographs and images...