Word: cloak
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...becomes painfully clear, is not nearly so obscure or weighty or downbeat as the director would have us believe. Altman is coming out foursquare in favor of life over death, love over hate, free will over fate. Though such optimistic feelings are admirable, there is no legitimate reason to cloak them in the arty mannerisms of yesteryear's avantgarde. Quintet has more highfalutin dialogue, pregnant pauses and overbearing symbols than the collected works of Maxwell Anderson; it has roughly as much content as a routine fortune cookie...
...Jones used the cloak of the First Amendment to deprive his followers of the very things that it was designed to guarantee: their freedom to worship and speak as individuals. That so many would shut off their minds and abdicate their roles as questioning, feeling, thinking beings was a stark reminder that, after centuries of what rationalists would like to think of as progress, in 1978 the line dividing civilization from savagery was still tragically fragile...
Second, the American taste for intervention in foreign lands has been dulled by the experience of Viet Nam. More specifically, the CIA's dagger has been blunted, its cloak ripped away by the scandals and investigations, the reorganizations and the firings of the '70s. The agency has felt it had to lie low, especially on its old Persian stomping ground, since "Iran" and CIA "dirty tricks" are almost synonymous to many ears...
Katz, commenting on the role of academic researchers in intelligence-gathering, said, "Scholars in scholarly journals often carry more valuable information through open channels than all this cloak-and-dagger stuff...
...Cloak and Dagger...