Word: answer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Oooooh...Mmmmh, ooh, that's a very hard question. If I knew the answer, I would tell you." A. Bartlett Giamatti can't say why he accepted the offer to become president of Yale University last winter. He rubs his chin, shakes his head a little, pondering the question. He screws up his soft face, where a little bit of a goatee outlines his chin--but it's really in his eyes. His brown eyes grow misty and far away; and the deep sighs, mixed with a sad chuckle or two reveal a man somewhat puzzled by his situation...
Stanley E. Flink, director of public information at Yale, perhaps limits the president's ability to freely discuss his views. Flink, constantly mindful of the time limit, is quick to offer press releases instead of answers. Giamatti begins to deplore the situation in South Africa and says he agrees in principle that universities and banks could demonstrate their feelings by divesting of their investments in American corporations which prop up the white minority government. He adds, however, "everyone has ethical responsibilities, but one wants to balance them. Divestiture is not the best way to bring about change in South Africa...
...otherwise, given the advanced state of affairs in the white-minority regime, all the events described in the film could well have taken place this week. 1959...nineteen years ago. Can that much time have passed since this damning indictment of South Africa was first made? The answer is a melancholy yes, which is a testimony to the power and paranoia of the white regime in South Africa, and to the willingness of the outside world to ignore apartheid. 1959...yet black men and women are still denied their humanity in South Africa. Come Back, Africa unquestionably merits a first...
...Dyke has an answer. "It would be unrealistic to assume we can change everything," she says. "But we do good. We're the drop in the bucket, but what we do is important...
...think that Sadat was wrong in making this calculation. The Camp David "framework" document does provide an abstract outline that points in the direction of a concrete answer to the hopes of the Palestinians. For the first time in a while it reintegrates into the diplomatic dialogue adherence to U.N. Resolution 242, as well as the commitment to resolve the Palestinian issue "in all its aspects." It also calls on Egypt and Israel to formulate concrete "modalities" for negotiations over the status of the West Bank that will include Palestinian representatives, and that will give the West Bank Palestinians veto...