Word: reals
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...thanks to sponsors like the National Film Board of Canada, dozens of artists doodle away. None produces characters so round or squeaky-cute as Disney's or as bawdy and animalistic as Bakshi's. Instead they often depict very real people in not-so-real situations. The best of these is Why Me?, the story of Nesbitt Spoon, an average CPA-type who learns from his doctor that he has only a short time to live--five minutes (and counting). Understandably, Mr. Spoon panics, and his creators have scripted their story so well that it matches perfectly the stages...
...most curious mix of the real and the absurd, the naturalistic and the impressionistic is a French film based on the diary of a coupe who attempted to cross the Atlantic in a rowboat. The story of their failure both to make the journey or to happily coexist is haunting and moving, replete with terrifying violence and strange sexual fantasies, ending finally with their rediscovered love...
After a slowdown because of supply problems, Harvard Real Estate Inc. (HRE) is continuing its program to convert about 150 HRE-owned residential units from oil to gas heating...
HARVARD DOES PREPARE ONE for the real world. But it does not prepare one to change that world--not educationally, politically, emotionally. Officials who think they can separate education from politics are at best deceiving themselves and at worst undermining the institution they claim to protect. A good education schools an individual to ask questions, to accept nothing as given, to challenge assumptions. An uncritical mind is an uneducated mind. In this sense education is political--an education that does not prepare students to think critically about the world they live in prepares them to accept...
...bitterness, alienation or resignation of many students measures their belief in that ideal. It is growing ever harder to believe that exposing flaws in this University or any other institution will prod people to consider changing them. And Harvard is doing its part to convince students that its "real world" is the only one. But I am stubborn, and grateful for it. I am not resigned, however hard Harvard has tried to teach...