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THE CAMPUS ECHO
Thursday, May 15, 1969
NORTH CAROLINA COLLEGE AT DURHAM
COMMENCEMENT PROGRAM, 1969
DAY DATE
SATURDAY, MAY 31
SATURDAY, MAY 31
SATURDAY, MAY 31
SUNDAY, JTOE 1
SUNDAY, JUNE 1
SUNDAY. JUNE 1
SUNDAY. JXmE 1
TIME EVENT
12:00 Noon Commencement Rehearsal
SATURDAY. MAY 31 10:00 A.M.
10:00 A.M. Outing for Graduating Seniors
8:00 P.M. Social Activity for Parents, Visitors,
Faculty. Staff and College Community
1:00 P.M. Dean of Women’s Breakfast
9:00 A.M. President’s Reception for Parents.
Visitors, Faculty, Staff and Students
2:30 P.M. Band Concert
3:00 P.M. Commencement Exercises
PLACE
College Alumni Association
Annual Meeting of the North Carolina
(Front Entrance, Outside)
Administration Building
Auditorium
Education Building
O’Kelly Field
Alfonso Elder
Student Union
NCC Cafeteria
Alfonso EUder
Student Union
The R. L. McDougald
Gymnasiimi
The R. L. McDougald
Gymnasium
A CP Reviews Movie ^ Where Eagles Dare^
“Where Eagles Dare,” with
Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood,
and Mary Ure, is a spy adventure
set in the Austrian Alps during
World War II.
Burton and Eastwood pene
trate an impenetrable castle to
free a captured Britsh flyer. Like
all good spy stories, the tale
becomes endlessly complicated
and convoluted before the end.
The tension stays high. As
soon as you figure out what’s
happening, it isn't. During the
brief periods when you know
what’s going on, the tension is
maintained by intensely dange
rous situations and showers of
violence and brutality like in
any nine million dollar movie.
Burton plays the infallible
lead spy, always ahead of the
other men, fast and cool. It’s a
simple part and he does it well.
Eastwood plays the American
from Montana; not quite with it,
doing his job well, saying slight,
low-key witticisms whenever he
kills someone .
The form of the movie is ab
solute Hollywood, bordering on
spoof. The Germans speak Eng
lish with German accents, the
Gestapo chief is blond and an
gular, every passing train whis
tles, the German general wears
a monocle, none of the good guys
gets hurt, Grermans die like flies,
its invention, every plane that’s
hit bums, every car that crash
es blows up, a girl is parachuted
in so the publicity can show
Burton smooching . . . the list
goes on.
Reality is casually sacrificed
to entertain. All movies do it.
However, the departures in this
one are so cliched that, com
pounded with the excessive and
formulaic violence, the movie
ends up uncreative, retarded. It
could have been made in 1942
(except no one found the war
entertaining then).
I talked to director, Brian
Hutton, and asked, “Well, do you
like your movie?” He told us,
“ a fUm it’s not; a movie, yes.
It’s for the guy who works in
the factory six days a week for
$2.50 an hour. It hits him on
the head—not that he needs it,
ha ha—but it’s not Antonioni,
it’s not Bergman ...” And,
Clint Eastwood told us, “I per
sonally don’t like message
films.”
One can’t help but agree.
You’d sound rather pompous to
claim that an uncreative movie
with no point ought not to have
been made.
Nonetheless, the movie is
evil. First, there’s the violence.
Violence is normal, I know, but
let me explain. A man bums
up. Another is fighting with
Burton on top of a cable car
high above the valley. Burton
takes his ice pick and embeds
it in the man’s arm. At one
point they must kill a radio
operator. For reasons of plot—
the man has to turn in an alarm
before he dies—he’s stabbed in
stead of shot. Clint, therefore,
creeps up on him for at least
30 seconds.
Lots of other ^olks get killed,
too, but none of them is human.
They are just Fascists or some
thing.
Violence in movies isn’t
wrong. But violence which de
humanizes the victims and keeps
us from thinking is.
As an aside, I’ll mention that
no one at MGM seems to care
about violence. We talked to
co-producer Jerry Gershwin. He
doesn’t give a damn. We quizzed
the new MGM president, Louis
Polk, who spoke of a pluralistic
society, “You get shifts and ten
dencies . . . it’s like a pendulum
. . . you had witch burning in
Salem. To cut violence out, I
think, is a mistake . . .” The
gist of his answer seemed to
be that people want to see vio
lence.
So, “Wliere Eagles Dare” is a
good adventure movie. It’s also
a big, expensive, golden egg.
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AT LAST! NCC’s bowling alley eagerly awaits bowlers. The
new alley, which contain six lanes, is located behind the student
union building.
A Television Special of Interest
“COSMOPOLIS”
'“Cosmopolis,” a North Ameri
can Rockwell Special, which
received great acclaim from
critics and governmental agen
cies alike, is based on the grow
ing agonies of the world’s cities
and was repeated in color
on Monday, May 12, 10:00 —
11;00 P.M., EDT on ABC-TV
with George C.Scott narrating.
(The Special was first broad
cast Jan. 13, 1969.)
All cities are afflicted with
the same problems, urban
sprawl, uncontrolled growth,
obsolescense, overcrowding, de
cay, pollution and a lack of
planning for the future.
Executive producer John Se-
condari seeks out some of the
world’s most knowledgeable and
concerned experts who discuss
their aproaches to solving these
problems which, they predict,
must be solved within the next
30 years if we are to survive.
“Presently most of the world’s
great cities are fighting for
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TWO-MILE WINNER — Silas
Mayfield prepares to hit the
tape first in the two-mUe run in
a five-way meet held in Durham.
Mayfield was timed at 9:41 in
winning this event.
their lives and some, if not all,
are losing the battle,” according
to Secondari.