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Republican Congressman William Steiger returned from a tour of universities to report last week: "Vast numbers of bright, dedicated, sincere students are just as deeply disturbed as the so-called revolutionaries. The difference is that they have not yet rejected completely the view that they should not resort to violence...
After interviewing students, faculty members and administrators across the country, TIME correspondents support Steiger's conclusions. Said Columbia Law Professor Michael Severn: "The mood is sullen. Students are not happy. They have had a taste of influence and power and they have not accomplished much." Like other campus elders, Severn fears that next year could be worse-and that new violence could invite a "real crackdown." Father Edwin Quain, acting president of Georgetown University in Washington, notes that "the freshmen are much more radical than the seniors, and I'm told that the high school students coming...
Jimmy Stewart's Oscar for The Philadelphia Story was workman's compensation for losing the year before in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. Rod Steiger's was actually for The Pawnbroker instead of In the Heat of the Night, as announced. Walter Matthau's Oscar came, he admits, "because I had a heart attack. They hate to give you anything when you're dead...
...Steiger is talking to a young hobo (Robert Drivas), and before the boy's astonished eyes, the skin pictures come alive and involve him in stories of the world's future and his own death...
...There is a point at which fantasy becomes dangerously close to reality," Robert Drivas intones portentously). But responsibility for the failure of The Illustrated Man must rest with Director Jack Smight. He has committed every possible error of style and taste, including the inexcusable fault of letting Steiger chew up every piece of scenery in sight. Exhuming his Oscar-winning sorghum accent from In the Heat of the Night, he gets more syllables out of a conjunction than most other actors could from Hamlet's second soliloquy. Steiger's performance, which is well below his usual high standard...