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...SPECIAL COMMITTEE REPORT on Black Rock Forest is unacceptable not only for its bizarre self-contradictions but also for its quick willingness to betray principles traditionally considered inviolable. The report recommends that Harvard abandon its nine-year stand and permit the sale of 240 acres of the area to Consolidated Edison. Con Ed, the New York power utility, needs the land to build the Storm King pumped storage hydroelectric plant, a project that has drawn the opposition of local residents, the City of New York and every major American conservation organization...
...President to lose a war." He related Viet Nam to Texas: "Just like the Alamo, somebody damn well needed to go to their aid. Well, by God, I'm going to Viet Nam's aid!" He promised: "I'll do anything except swallow my honor and betray my country to get peace...
...Clown's Evening, Bergman's first masterpiece, sums up attitudes Bergman had suggested in his films of the preceding three years. During the course of a single day's action, we see the owner of an impoverished travelling circus and his mistress, the bare-back rider, each betray the other. Albert tries to return to the wife he had left long ago. Anne, partly in retaliation, has a pitiful affair with a condescending actor. Both are rejected in these attempts to escape the circus life, and, after still further torment, the day ends with the pair together again, walking...
...band." That they are, But they're also a vehicle for Ray Davies' mad genius. I admire Davies (belatedly I'll admit) for his flagrant Englishnees and an equally flagrant aura of working class. (Davies is from London's Muswell Hill district). I admire his adamant refusal to betray those roots. He and his bend of vagrants rock on. God Save the Kinks...
...like the Lindberghs?" Marquand thought a moment and replied, "George you've got to remember all heroes are horses' asses." Marquand makes fun of Apley's inhibitions and his struggle to fit the grip of Boston tradition and his struggle to fit the grip of Boston tradition and not betray it. Yet all his life Marquand sought roots where family life and tradition would be important. But instead he broke two marriages and scattered his homes and children across the East. Birmingham stresses Apley's failure to escape Boston conformity; but really Apley has not failed at all. Instead...