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...words of the University of Chicago’s Kalven Report, be a home of critics, rather than a critic itself. Perhaps, when a president speaks on politics—even off-the-record, and in a personal capacity—that barrier is crossed. Yet whether the subject is women in science, Afro-American studies, or Paulin, Summers’ comments have been subject to withering criticism from faculty and students alike. What intelligent person could read the papers and conclude that all of Harvard thinks as he does, or that its Faculty feels any pressure to agree...
...leader”—was one of the most influential and most controversial. Shyam Benegal, an accomplished Bombay director and one of the most celebrated figures of contemporary Indian cinema, has taken the last years of Bose’s life as the subject of his newest film, Netaji: The Last Hero...
That Benegal has chosen a colorful subject is indisputable. Borders are crossed and re-crossed. There are more varieties of badly-accented English than one could ever imagine. We are shown Bose’s humanity, too—in an inexplicable anecdote in which the sudden presence of a small cat sends him, impervious though he may be to the threats of gunfire all around, into fidgeting and squeals...
...really exist. The strength and the weakness of this film may be precisely the extent to which it is seduced by its protagonist’s own rhetoric and rhetorical figures. Benegal doesn’t fail to convey that he has great enthusiasm and passion for the subject he has chosen. But this passion seems, too often, like the zeal of a propagandist and not enough like the reflection of an artist open to the ethical difficulties of the “conflictual tapestry” he has chosen to represent...
...remembered the encounter. It seemed that Matt, however, did not. I followed his lead and introduced myself like we were strangers. We continued on these terms, moving forward with the normal proceedings of an interview, but I kept stumbling. It’s hard to concentrate on what your subject is saying when you can’t stop staring at his partially pony-tailed hair...