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Last year, in America Revised, a study of American history school textbooks since 1833, Frances FitzGerald found that textbook publishers, eye on the profits, have learned to package a bland and pietistically harmless kind of book that dutifully records the point of view of every minority that raises its hand, or voice, but gives no coherent idea of American theme or direction. Says Pittsburgh's Hays: "We haven't had a new synthesis of American history since Charles and Mary Beard. Instead, we have had people going off in all these little directions and knowing more and more...
...Ronald Reagan quietly prepared for the campaign to come last week by meeting with his staff, consulting Republican members of Congress, and appearing at events to raise money to pay the campaign debts of the foes he had defeated. As always, he projected an air of casual, almost bland self-assurance, and with reason: the latest polls showed that he had edged past Jimmy Carter. For two hours, Reagan met with Time Inc.'s editors and outlined the views on domestic and foreign issues that he firmly believes will carry him to the White House. Excerpts...
Brubaker is a difficult film to dislike, and for that reason it may accomplish part of its goal, which is to educate audiences to the bloody reality of prison existence. But as entertainment, it remains somewhat bland and predictable. Redford--Murton--drives off into the sunset, leaving behind a plantation of untamed men whose personal well-being he has sacrificed to protect his moral principles...
...country, where socialism has been victorious, where there has arisen a moral and political unity of the people unprecedented in the history of mankind, there is no special basis for different directions in art." Thus the lid clamped down, and it has remained down ever since, condensing the bland, dull, obsequious and piously idealistic nature of official "realism...
...Soviet public may get to see only bland or self-critical films from the West, but the elite are permitted to study the works of leading film makers from all nations. As a result, the best Soviet movies, whatever their content, have the look and feel of the best European films...