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Tuesday, June 10, 1969
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Tuesday, June 10, 1969
cinema
Hard Contract'
Im *bl
imossible movie
By TOBE LEV
Hard Contract, now playing at the Michigan, aspires to make a
super-sophisticated, super-philosophical comment on the imperson-
ality and horror of modern violence. But director S. Lee Pogovan
sacrificed emotion, excitement, suspense and credibility only to
dramatize a cliche. Pogovan made a' very hard contract indeed.
The characters are unbelievable. Some are abstractions from
an allegory, and others, like Burgess Meredith and James Coburn,
are gifts from Ian Fleming. No one talks - they intellectualize.
No one acts - they have to symbolize. -
Meredith directs a murder agency whose presumable purpose
is the elimination ,of its ideological opponents. Coburn portrays a
hired killer who is "97 per cent control and 3 per cent emotion.''
Coburn sets, one precondition for murder: he never must know
anything about his victims.
Pogovan dramatizes the immorality of Meredith's operation by
never specifying its motives or ideals. He skillfully portrays the
impersonality of assassination by never focusing on the act of
killing itself. Coburn looks daggers at his victim in one scene and
disposes of his body in the next.
Lee Remick, Lilli Palmer, and their two chaperones represent
the idle rich of America, Britain, France and Germany respectively.
Lee Remick is an avenging angel "who either helps or punishes her
men." Lilly Palmer Is the spirit of romance and happiness, espous-
ing forgiveness and light in a very obnoxious, scatter-brained man-
ner. Alexei is the penitent agressor, a former Nazi responsible for'
the extermination of 30,000 Jews. Completely guilt-stricken, he en-
dures Remick's constant Nazi-baiting and follows her orders as if,
she were the Fuehrer.4
The murdierers and jet setters are somehow star-crossed. Co-
burn's victims are Lilli Palmer's former friends. And miraculously
Lee Remick falls in love with Coburn, who renounces violence and
seeks a new life. The avenging angel forgives and the killer becomes
pacifist.
The atmosphere itself is charged with unreality, and forced
allegorical meanings. Spain, for instance, is not merely Spain but
the scene of the Spanish Civil War, a symbol of frustrated ideal-
ism, and hence, senseless violence.
The dialogue and action in the movie are so subtle and quick-
paced that the viewer is under constant pressure to understand
events. Nothing ever flows spontaneously. The film is pieced to-
gether. Often Pogovan starts the soundtrack of the next scene
before he actually switches the camera, perhaps to make the tran-
sitiops easier.
And what did all these mechanizations accomplish? Coburn's
emergence from his, figurative "tunnel" is completely implausible.
His conversion is needlessly intellectualized, like the rest of the
film.
And what is his new gospel? "More people will be killed in
the name of freedom and human dignity, he solemnly declares,
than for any other cause. Watch and see."
music
Spoleto- bound
Choir:
Easy to see why
By JIM PETERS
There was a bon voyage party
'last night at Hill Aud. It was
given by the music school for
its Europe-bound travelers, the
University Chamber Choir. The
mood was bright, and the quali-
ty of the music performed omens
well for an excellent trip.
The Chamber Choir will ap-
pear as the "Choir-in-Resi-"
dence" at the "Festival of Two
Worlds" to be held this summer
in Spoleto, Italy. Last' night's
program was a duplicate of their
performance planned for the
festival.
I had heard most of the of-
ferings previously during the
Choir's concert season, but, now,
months of preparation and the
excitement of their adventure
gave this performance a notice-
able sparkle. The Choir was con-
fident, and their ability uniues-
tionable.
The soft "Tristis est anima
mea" of Gesualdo was the op-
ener. The group's phrasing was
near perfect; like organ pipes,
smooth basses supported the
treble voices.
I've never really liked Poul-
ene's short but complex "Mass
in G;" h i s declamatory style
seems unsuited for the harsh
sonorities of the harmony. But
I've heard the Choir s i n g it
twice now, and their fine work
could almost persuade me to
look closer.
The "Gloria" proved the weak-
est section with the women's
voices tending to irritate the al-
ready harsh sound. But I found
little to fault in the powerful
"Sanctus" or the mystic, intense
"Benedictus."
A review of a concert of this
kind tends to tire one with su-
perlatives and pleasant adje-
tives, but every piece, though
perhaps rough in certain spots
last night, was well-done.
Arnold Schoenberg's "De Pro-
fundis" features Hebrew sprech-
gesang. Here the Choir emphas-
ized the music rather than the
drama of the a capella piece,
thus playing down the power of
the spoken supplications to
"Adonal." They handled the
amorphous atonalities with the
sure spirit of masters.
Three sugar-spun Ravel songs
closed the first half. Soprano
Barbara Ford moved effortless-
ly through the haunting Trois
beaux oiseaux du Paradis.
The Choir's ensemble was a
little ragged in Charles/ Ives'
ominous Psalm 90. The sudden
cadences and changes in dyna-
mics were some trouble, though
the main crescendo-dimminu-
endo of the, piece was strong and
sustained.
In his second group of Lie-
beslieder Waltzes Brahms con-
tinues his fun and games with
the top pop tunes of his times.
Laughing, caressing, reminisc-
ing, boasting, the music is ex-
pansive and intimate all at
once.
The soloists had good voices
but really didn't seem too hap-
py roaming through the ro-
mantic melodies. Tenor Jerry.
Vander Schaff, perhaps, camea
closest to the inherent fun in
the music with his lilting Vien-
nese lyric.
Finally, another Schoenberg
piece, strikingly different from
his well-known style of t h e
De Profundis. The short Friede
aufErden is almost effusively
romaini. The task is to keep
Schoenberg's harmonies f ro m
getting lost in the complex poly-
phonies of the piece. The Choir
was still strong, even here; and
I was most satisfied with this
bit of Schoenberg, previously
unknown to me.
The festival in Italy will be an -
adventure-new sights and peo-
ple. If just the plans and pre-
parations for the trip were the
impetus for such fine work, the
Spoleto concert should be fan-
tastic. Travel is usually some-
thing special, and the magic has
already begun. .
Undert the direction of i ts
founder - president, composer
Gian Carlo Menotti. this sum-
mer's Spoleto Festival will be
the twelfth annual Italian-
American festival to be held in
the small town located some 60
miles northeast of Rome. The
festival will be held from June
27 to July 13.
In Italy, the choir will ap-
pear with the internationally
known conductor Thomas Sch-
ippers in a performance of Ros-
sini's opera 'L'Itallana in Ale-
gri.'
They will also work with Mr.
:Schippers on July 13 when the
festival concludes with a per-
formance .of Beethoven's Ninth
Symphony in the Cathedral
Square.
In addition, several solo con-
certs are planned in Rome and
Perugia.
The Chamber Choir is under
the direction of Prof. Thomas
Hilbish of the music school, who
founded the group in 1964.
Along with t h e Chamber
Choir, the Spoleto Festival will
Present the American Ballet
Players from the Brooklyn
Academy of Music; a double bill
of Menotti's . "The Medium"
with Muriel Grenspon, and Fal-
la's puppet opera "El Retablo de
Masse Petro;" and world pre-
mieres of Edoardo Sanguineti's
"L 'Orlando Furioso" and Naz-
im Hikmet's "La Spada di Dam-
ocle."
In addition the first Italian
staging of Bertolt Brecht's "A
Modest Man's Wedding" will be
given.
Poetry readings, a film series,
and an art show are also on the
festival program.
UNOFFICIAL RESULTS
Yes No
Operating millage............ ............. 9,152 8,883
Special education millage............. 12,012 5,951
Bonding issue............ 9,146 6,223
CANDIDATES
JOHNSON. .......................................... 9,183
WARNER......... .... ...........................8,835,
BISHOP..........................................8,697
Anderson ........................................ 7,715
Kemp .........1... ................ ...... ... 6,257
Gottleib ......................... . ........... . 4,418
Schneider.......................................4,004
Shoultz..... .... ............................... 1,189
Cruz .............. .............................;.... 1,004
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try," Eisenhower said. "I don't
think there is any centralized con-
trol."
The report said that "while vio-
lowed by the concessions sought,
lent protest is sometimes fol-
lowed by the concessions sought,
it more often produces a degree
of counter-violence and public dis-
may that may gravely damage the
cause for which violence is in-
voked."
It challenged the belief held
by some members of the univer-
sity community that civil 1 a w
should not apply to , internal
campus affairs.
"A serious misconception," the
report said. "Now that students
themselves have firmly discarded
school authority over their per-
sonal lives, they must logically ac-
cept the jurisdiction of c i v i 1
authority."
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Millage scores
surprise
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Garnering 8,697 votes, Dr. Ron-
ald Bishop, who won the third
seat, said he was "very pleased
with the millage victory."
"It'll make our work much
easier," he said. He indicated the
passage of the millage reflected "a
vote of confidence to the judg-
ment of the current board."
"I'm glad to see students con-
tinue to accept their responsibili-
ties as citizens," Bishop added. "I
think they should continue moving
along that line."
The $4,950,000 bonding issue for
r 1
1 r The university .officials are ill-
equipped to control violent and
obstructive tactics on their o w n
a new junior high, had been de- and should "make known in ad-
feated twice, but passed yesferday vance. that they will not hesitate
unofficially 9,146 to 6,223. Only to call on civil police when cir-
property owners voted on the pro- cumstances dictate and s h o u 1 d
posal which will provide funds for review in advance with police of-
constructing the city's fifth junior ficials the degrees of force suit-
high school. able for particular situations."
The half-mill addition to ' the It stressed that existing laws
p esent half-mill asssessment for already withdraw financial a i d
the education of mentally and from students who engage in dis-
physically handicapped students ruptive acts and added "additional
passed unofficially 12,012-5,951. laws along the same lines would
The extra half mill will be used not accomplish any useful p u r-
tp expand special services needed pose."
to meet increased enrollment of
handicappedstudents.
TM advisory committee
drafts secret proposal
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be submitted two weeks in ad-
vance.,
He said that the Regents would
most likely acknowledge receiving
the report or set up a committee
to look further into the matter,
with no final acti6n coming be-
fore their July meeting.
The two key questions which the
board had to deal with were
whether student fees, in the fdrm
of a tuition increase, would be used
to fund new facilities and whether
to hold a student referendum on
the question of building the new
facilities. ,
After the meeting, the Board is-
sued the following statement:
"The Committee has drafted a
proposal for transmittal to the
Regents for the construction of
new indoor intramural and re-
creation facilities. The Committee
attempted to reconcile so far as
possible the many divergent views
expressed within the Committee
and from others that have attend-
ed the meetings. It is noted that'
the report encourages continued.
student participation in the plan-
ning process. The report will be
released at the discretion of the
Regents."
Almost every student group has
expressed opposition to any tui
tion increase for IM funding with-
out a student referendum.
SGC* has passed a resolution,
calling for a binding student ref-
erendum on the use of student
fees. Other groups which have
called for a ' ferendum include
Inter-fraternity Council, Inter-
House Assembly, the Tenants Un-
ion and every other organization
except Bursley Council.
The original IM proposal called
for two new facilities costing from
$11 - to $i million dollars. How-
ever, it may have changed during
the board's deliberation.
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