Word: work
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Harvard examination system is designed, according to its promulgators, to test two specific things, knowledge of trends and knowledge of details. Men approaching the examination problem have three choices: 1. flunking out, 2. doing the work, or 3. working out some system of fooling the grader. The first choice of solution is too permanent, the second takes too long...
Quickly, he opened the first. There, on page 317, adjoining some faint underlinings, were written three words in the margin: "Is this sure?" This defacement was Lucius' work, and his only vice. Each week he recorded some provocative comment in a book, returned it, and then withdrew it again to study what replies he had inspired. In this way he found a forum for his views. The only misfortune was that debate was limited, since his book selections were not the most fashionable, and since his original critic never replied to Lucius's rebuttal. This time there was no response...
Recoiling in horror, Lucius returned all but the second book and hurried to the welcoming stack door. Once inside, he steadied himself, reflecting that this was the harsh price of public expression. Anyway, it was clearly the work of a non-library...
...Luck being with the lovers, neither the husband nor the ex-lover hear all the splashing and the two spend what is left of the night together. Morning finds the tired but happy couple stealing away from the house together, observed in their joy by a lone white work-horse, who is obviously a disguised observer from McCall...
...Villard's camera direction is uniformly acceptable and occasionally outstanding, as is the sound-track that Brahms unwittingly supplied. And, to make up for the puerility of the love scene, there are several short scenes of rare film sophistication. A tense evening meal combines brilliant writing, direction, and camera work to acid, ironic effect. However, from bedtime on, the movie bogs down...