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...Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus, 56, announced that he would not run for a seventh two-year term, provided that the Democrats field a strong candidate to oppose Republican Contender Winthrop Rockefeller. Arkansans are inclined to believe that Faubus may even mean it this time. Though he likes to portray himself as a poor backwoodsman, Faubus has been embarrassed by adverse comment on his new $280,000 home and, in any case, he has good reason to fear Rockefeller, who pressed him strongly in 1964. - Lloyd Hand, 37, who resigned abruptly as Washington's Chief of Protocol (see The Administration...
Project Discovery teachers generally like the variety of films available, although they would prefer more short films, each on a narrowly specific topic, and more biographical films. Teachers at Scott Montgomery would like to see more films that do not portray "white middle-class suburban America." It would now cost other schools about $16 per pupil per year to duplicate the project's facilities, but this cost will decline as demand increases. Despite the advantages, no one expects films to become more than just another of a teacher's many tools. The teacher, says E.B.F.'s Howell...
...snippets from interviews, reflects the same kind of directness. Some volunteers speak of their failures and frustrations, of their frequent inability to produce the slightest dent on traditional village life. Others have a more optimistic tale. Above all, one receives a sense of complete candor, of an attempt portray the actuality of Peace Corps life in India...
After Contempt, Godard achieved yet another masterpiece in The Married Woman, a film, according to Godard, "in black and white." In this film, Godard attempted to portray the dilemma of modern women, forced to make "black and white" decisions in a masculine-dominated society, yet incapable of doing so. Godard insist on exploring every tiny aspect of the art of film; even the use of black and white film, normally taken for granted, is done with a purpose. Godard continues to make two or three films a year, and his latest efforts, Alphaville and Pierrot le Fou, while not quite...
After the war and Hiroshima, Brecht revised the play to include the problem of the scientist knowing sin. Brecht also began to portray the great physicist as the great proletarian who unwittingly becomes the leader of the masses. Galileo thus turned into a catch all for Brecht's most important thought during the war years. The result is staggering...