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...agree. He looks as if he would like to kill somebody, very possibly Maclean or Director Gries - the former for penning him up with this bunch of bores, the latter for never finding some visually interesting way to cut through the excessively intricate plot After a lot of witless blather, it turns out that Bronson was only pretending to be a baddie - big surprise! - that he is really a federal agent in disguise. Naturally it also turns out that just about everyone left alive in that plush car when the Indians finally get around to attacking...
Melodramatic and sentimental, the play fans simple thoughts into pseudopoetic blather, but the characters, especially those played by Ryan and Costigan, are piercingly true...
Although his audience probably expected the blather that educators prefer to hide behind, Rosovsky instead proceeded to announce a move that stands today as one of the most prominent decisions of his two - and - one - half-year tenure: "I think that Harvard College needs a new Redbook. It is time to reestablish a consensus that will last another 20 years." The comment by the Japanese - economics - professor - turned - dean, stated in a level, dispassionate voice, meant little or nothing to students gathered in the lofty dining hall. But it set off a wholesale review of undergraduate education that is just...
...Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer. 252 pages. Viking. $7.95. "Compassion's like masturbation. Doesn't do anybody else any harm and if it makes you feel any better ..." If Mehring were simply the small-Boer caricature suggested by such blather, The Conservationist would be a cheap shot indeed. Instead, South African Author Nadine Gordimer, 51, makes him a human and nuanced advocate of the very thing her ten previous books opposed: the white-supremacist policy of apartheid...
...blather about 'responsibility' to keep secrets instead of exploding abuses has begun to creep back into the press parlance," he wrote, citing "the old pre-Watergate, pre-Vietnam ideals of partnership with government...of a camaraderie of secrets shared by this peerage but kept from the public...