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...discrediting comes even easier in this case because the community relations people need only tell Bok that it is simply the same old ineffectual people banging again on the Mass Hall door. And they would be right. Each one of the leaders has been grinding the community axe for so long that its blades are all but worn away. Harvard Square Task Force head Oliver Brooks has been a thorn in Harvard's side ever since he pushed for community input when building Harvard's low-cost housing projects of the '60s. Pebble Gifford was instrumental in compiling the Harvard...
Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci, who sponsored the task force proposal, said the change would ensure that decisions on Harvard Square planning "would not be left to a handful of people with an axe to grind or a personal interest in development...
Butler dismisses most union claims because he says the organizers have an axe to grind. Butler also contests the organizers' objections to the promotion system...
...verbal thrust and counterthrust, the sharp criticism of women's roles in society. Consider a typical Coward "life-line": "If there's one thing in the world that infuriates me, it's sheer wanton stubbornness. I should like to cut off your head with a meat axe." Without Jan Lewis's acid-coated delivery and Hutson's wry cool on stage, Coward's play would never escape the quagmire it so richly deserves. Mark Swiney, Carla Dragoni, and Patsy Culbert portray brilliantly the assorted pathologies of organic brain damage, a chronic symptom of Coward's background characters...
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...