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For a whole generation that fight has meant three main activities. One of the first things Juanito told me in the camp was the slogan of the Young Communists: "Work, study, and defense." Everyone works, in regular jobs and in voluntary labor. Everyone studies, to acquire more advanced skills and...
Alinsky deliberately cultivates his split personality; he believes that a well-developed case of schizophrenia is essential to successful radicalism. The radical knows in his heart that life is tragic, men are complex, and every course of action involves a choice of evils. Nevertheless, he must act as if he...
The avalanche of money is attracting many companies. Last week Merck & Co., the drug manufacturers, agreed to pay $44 million in stock for Baltimore Aircoil Co., which earned $1.2 million in 1969 by making cooling towers to control thermal pollution of water. Last month the Coca-Cola Co. announced plans...
Boll's brief glimpses, even of Nazi soldiers struggling to retain essential humanity, acquire a lasting and humane relevance for any country and any war.
Some scenes hold the promise of achieving romantic permanence, of defining by themselves the relations of the characters. We begin to acquire confidence in the things they say about each other. in the places where they are, in the ways they move. Then Polonsky cuts away to other characters in...