Word: applauding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...performances it's best to keep your month shut during intermission because the critical comment you make is bound to offend the person who sewed the gold buttons on such-and-such's jacket. But as a courtesy to those new to the production these initiates might try to applaud and laugh it up more convincingly. When you laugh alone the Loeb can be lonely...
NIXON'S LEADERSHIP. "I would list a kind of balance sheet on particular issues, both pro and con. I applaud his efforts to reduce tensions internationally, his new China policy and the Nixon Doctrine in the Far East. But a basic question is whether the country is coming to grips with the more essential problems we have at home. There is no sense of where the country is and where it is going. The basic catalyst for leadership is the President, and the failure of Nixon is in leadership...
...find fault with Jesus Christ Superstar. I applaud it. It is good entertainment and not immoral. We should not judge it as history but as any other play. We should encourage such plays and not rap them. It has a good message: Christ lives on in our lives, but he continues to die every time there is cruelty and injustice...
ADVANCED STANDING AND PLACEMENT: We applaud the successful effort of many high schools to offer college-level courses to their students, but we view critically the tracking systems that A. P. and other programs have generated. Our criticism extends to the policies of Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges, for Advanced Standing and Honors distinctions have created divisive labels that are unnecessary and that have educational and social consequences which are often detrimental. We recommend that the present policy of granting Advanced Standing to selected entering students be terminated. The chance to graduate in three years minimizes the impact of this change...
Which is not to say that Millhouse isn't at times also quite compassionate. It does tend to laugh at the prune faced conventioneers and D.A.R.'s who applaud Nixon's jeremiads against dope peddlers, his paeons to private enterprise, and his assurances that the only thing "worse than atomic war would be surrender." But, by film's end, it also sees such unsympathetic figures--as well as the urban poor at the Thanksgiving Dinner and even the Nixons themselves--as victims of a culture and a government that no man would want to wish on even his worst...