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...would prefer to sympathize with Brustein and not his opponents, those who abandon dedication and love for art in favor of the spontaneous and the impure, those who seek to destroy the university because it is the most fragile institution in American life, those who feed the war machine by whining self-indulgently when they could work to stop it, but Brustein will never convert them with name calling. Essentially this book is a cry of passion, but not an intellectual work. It may anger some and satisfy others, but it will appeal to prejudice, not the mind...
...trying to fulfill these objectives most of the programming of PVT has been characterized by the abandonment of the stilted, formalistic interviewer approach used by network journalists. The result is that the people who do the talking-the minister of the Young Lords who gives a guided tour of the El Barrio, the observers and participants in the New York Women's Liberation March,-feel less constricted and are able to abandon the on-stage, false media personality that network television inflicts upon them. In one PVT sequence, a black shines the shoes of a white man. "I'll tell...
...from incinerators. At a cost of $3.52 a ton, he says, his methods yield materials with a potential market value of $12 a ton. Last week New York City's environmental protection administrator. Je- rome Kretchmer. suggested a way to recycle the 73,000 cars that New Yorkers abandon on the streets each year. He urged the state to enact a law making auto buyers give the state a $ 100 deposit for new cars, auto owners $50 for their present car. Once the cars were junked "in an environmentally acceptable manner," the money would be refunded-the old returnable...
...question is what will happen if the number of people who want to move is smaller than the plan requires," Bruce Chalmers, Master of Winthrop House said yesterday. "Do we abandon the plan or manage with fewer men than we would like...
...half hours of Cromwell is really entitled to know that Cromwell was not one of the Five Members Charles tried to arrest in 1642, that Pym died in 1643 and not circa 1647, that Ireton was not a power-mad advocate of absolute government, that Edward Hyde did not abandon Charles' cause, and that Cromwell did not spend "six years" wasting away in the country before the Protectorate. One of those lumbering ironies for which such films strive ( Anne concluded with a pan shot of Good Queen Bess as a tot) was in Cromwell based on blatant contrivance: Cromwell...