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Throughout his multiple quests, McDowell encounters simplistic over-dramatizations of the evil which besets our society. The viewer encounters many of the standard film cliches which normally beset directors far below Anderson's level. The picaresque style which Anderson adopts has already been so exhausted in both film and literature as to leave little room for originality. And the major fresh idea -- generalizing the actor's experience -- smells so strong that it might as well be stale...
...under way in Fall 1969. The program was beset with serious problems from the very beginning. First, teachers and students soon developed two, very different definitions of public clinical psychology. Some stuck to White's goal of learning to provide mental health care in traditional clinical settings. Others felt that this sort of work just patched up the more seriously damaged psychological victims of institutions throughout society which failed to meet human needs. The concerns of this wing of CP3 went beyond just schools and hospitals to include the effects of all kinds of institutions on individuals: police departments, families...
...administration claims that its Cambodian acts are meant to guarantee the implementation of the January peace agreements, which it says are beset by subversion from the North Vietnamese and the National Liberation Front. Henry A. Kissinger '50 is in Paris this week, purportedly to strengthen the agreements through new negotiations with the North Vietnamese...
...combat on the villain's lawn. While they kick, chop and clobber each other, the road right beside the field of battle is fairly clogged with traffic. No one bothers to take a look, much less stops to help, an inadvertent suggestion of how quickly boredom can beset the martial arts...
Donaldson did say, however, that the claims made by the proposal have an "element of truth" in them. "They are emotionally drained and beset by career decisions," he said of second-year students. "Of course these are very distractive to educational activities," he said...