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...emotional connection with its audience. This is particularly true of films about figures whose claim on the attention of the world is exerted not through force of arms but through force of mind and spirit. The temptation, which has become almost a generic convention, is for film makers to adopt a dehumanizing reverence, which creates a holy void, a sort of white hole, at the center of the film. Meanwhile, they hope that background bustle will distract audiences from noticing that the protagonist seems to be on permanent leave of absence...
...academic quality as Harvard, the administration took it upon itself, before the need became acute, to pledge financial support and full compensation for any government aid lost because of their refusal to register for the draft. We of HRSSR applaud Yale's decision and strongly urge Harvard to adopt a similar policy...
...safe to prevent leaks to the press. The Secretary made sure that Reagan was kept abreast: three times he took his ad hoc policy review group to the White House to explain the salient details of Middle Eastern geopolitics. Reagan, who is instinctively pro-Israeli, was gradually persuaded to adopt a policy that was more even-handed toward the Palestinians...
Board Member Peter Drysdale, executive director of the Australia-Japan Research Center at the Australian National University, maintained that with a current inflation rate of only 1.7%, Japan is in a uniquely strong position to adopt a stimulative policy. Said he: "Japan can be seen as a kind of excessively cautious giant at this time, hesitating to expand its economy for fear of rekindling inflation...
...January 1973, the bishops were shaken by a second event, the Supreme Court decision allowing abortion on demand in most circumstances. This legal challenge to the age-old Catholic teaching that abortion is equivalent to murder forced the bishops to adopt a style of political propaganda and maneuver that, until then, had been more characteristic of liberal Protestants. For Catholicism, the abortion decision was a bold attack on human life and dignity. The radical change produced reflection upon other "life" issues, especially the arms race. Says Bernardin: "If you take a strong stand against abortion as the unjust taking...