Word: axes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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According to Variety, Conrack is cooler box-office in New York than in other cities. You can't blame only semi-sighted, axe-grinding, propagandistic critics for its failure; the film has only one star, and little explicit sex or violence. But if critics were doing their jobs, rather than giving glib lip-service to politics, the film at least might have won the audience that flocked to Sounder. Conrack's makers took a story pregnant with social meaning and developed it in their own light, with unforced grit and soul; it would be scandalous if its poor showing kept...
...issue I wanted to pursue, he endeavored to present his case as cogently and unemotionally as possible. At a meeting last week at Phillips Brooks House, when he raised the question of collaboration after a lecture on the holocaust, he was shouted down and insulted. "I have no axe to grind. And if I have shown you one thing, it is, I hope, that I am perhaps only half-crazy...
From Paris, France, to Xenia, Ohio, to Bad Axe, Mich., Richard Nixon last week took his own advice, as set forth in the Six Crises description of how he defused the 1952 uproar over his political slush fund. This time, his counteroffensive was against the gathering danger of his impeachment, and the peripatetic President's message to the American public was that despite Watergate he was still greatly respected and needed abroad, and could still be welcomed and on top of things at home. But his travels provided Nixon with no more than a brief respite from the pressures...
...Axe, Cass City and Sandusky, Nixon drew crowds far larger than the towns' populations (all under 3,000). For the most part, the reception was friendly, though not enthusiastic. There were some hostile placards (among them: IMPEACH THE CROOK and CAPONE GOT 10 YEARS) but many more pro-Nixon demonstrators, including a group that chanted, "God loves the President." Then it was back to Washington, a change of suitcases, and off to his Key Biscayne home for the Easter weekend...
...loss of five teachers in a department as large as History may seem insignificant. The attitudes towards educational priorities that are reflected in this choice, however, are not insignificant. Even though faced with a very grim financial picture, the University's first slice of the axe should not be off teachers' budgets. Budget priorities that allow for a cutback in teaching staff at the same time as a projected increase in the size of undergraduate classes are irresponsible...