Word: answer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this case some of Brown-Beasley's arguments are weak, but several raise serious questions that Steiner's arguments do not answer. On the one hand Leonard is probably right not to rule now on Brown-Beasley's query, a request for an investigation of his racial discrimination complaint, which would best first be handled by the appeal panel. Yet it is hard to understand why Steiner--who for one need not, as Brown-Beasley notes, ultimately rule on the case--will not respond to certain fundamental procedural questions Brown-Beasley has raised. These questions include: 1) questions about...
...interiorize, and of treating people like chessmen, even checkers. Paths of Glory serves as an ample refutation to that. He has also been accused of not knowing how to work actors, of demeaning them and consciously turning them into furniture. The old fascist bastard Adolphe Menjou has an answer to that. He said that the only director who worked actors as sensitively as Kubrick was the director of his 1923 film. A Woman of Paris, Charles Chaplin. Kirk Douglas gives a good performance, and Ralph Meeker, waiting for the firing squad, squashes a cockroach with his thumb after his comrade...
...answer to the triviality of press coverage turns on whether real issues were raised by the candidates and ignored by the press. It is true that there was little daily coverage of the candidates' stands on issues, but they were not very vigorously asserted by the candidates themselves. Where were the major policy speeches comparable to those by Franklin Roosevelt in 1932, or even to the sheaves of "position papers" on every subject that Nixon put out in 1968? This was a campaign dominated by admen's televised simplicities, endlessly repeated...
...Deux-Eglises, Wilson asked him what he did there during the quiet evenings. "I knew he read westerns," said Wilson, "but in addition to that, he said he played patience [soli-taire]. I asked him if he cheated if it wasn't turning out." De Gaulle's answer. "Yes, invariably...
During the question and answer period following Dellums's speech, a member of the Spartacist Youth League criticized Dellums for being part of the Democratic Party...