Word: badly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Genteel Banter. M.I.T. Humanities Professor Louis Kampf contends that many English teachers now recoil from stressing literature's illumination of life. They fear that voicing strong opinions is not only "a bad breach of manners," but might jeopardize their careers; thus confine themselves to "genteel banter." Historian Staughton Lynd, who has carried his beliefs into angry dissent from the Viet Nam war, criticizes historians who limit themselves to defining and analyzing forces in society. He asks acidly: "Should we be content with measuring the dimension of our prison instead of chipping, however inadequately, against the bars...
...punishment: speedy, inescapable prosecution, a fair chance for a fresh start, and state-upheld values that offenders can reasonably acknowledge as superior to their own. For one thing, 77% of reported U.S. crimes are never solved; many are never even reported. Thus, most caught criminals see their problem as bad luck rather than bad character. Indeed, such are the human mind's defenses that the guilty often feel in nocent. Dostoevsky astutely depicts a would-be murderer viewing his act as "not a crime...
...Angeles. Bon vivant, ladies' man, globetrotter, Kurnitz was never one to bite the hand that paid him. "I write like Pavlov's dog," he said. "I just start typing automatically in the morning. And in 30 years, he cranked out more than 40 scripts, some bad but quite a few good, among them 1944's See Here, Private Hargrove, 1957's Witness for the Prosecution and 1966's How to Steal a Million. Broadway lured him, too and his Once More, with Feeling was a hit of the 1958-1959 season...
...very familiar with the doctrine that there are good laws and bad laws, and that a man is bound to disobey bad laws. I do not accept that doctrine in the United States," he said, because legal channels for change remain open to all Americans...
...story comes in spurts, with snatches of documentaries thrown in at random. Robert (Yves Montand), the hero, spends most of his time wandering around the world making television documentaries. Admittedly, Robert is not a bad television documentary producer, but the horrors of Vietnam are not relevant to the love story that should be the core of the film. One can only assume that these sequences are thrown in as Contrast, but the contrast is too great to have any meaning to the audience. Half the time you are watching a French Flick, and the other half you are watching...