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...recent "Brass Tacks" editorial ("A Question of Tolerance," May 3, 1982). Paul Engelmayer strays from his usually cogent and well-reasoned style. The piece contains a number of factual errors concerning GSA's petition drive in response to the suggestion of E.L. Pattullo (Director, Harvard University Center for the Behavioral Sciences) that homosexuality be eradicated through the application of "negative social pressures" and, in addition, entirely ignores the chilling effect of such views on research in the three departments Pattullo overseas...
What is it about TV news that makes otherwise cogent screenwriters go bananas? Paddy Chayefsky lost his grip on dramaturgy when he constructed his Network. Now Richard Brooks (Elmer Gantry, In Cold Blood) heaves a harangue about world politics and the media, and it is one desperate muddle. Sean Connery plays a superstar reporter who bears messages not only to millions of viewers but, Haiglike, from heads of state to thugs of war. The fate of the world hangs in the balance. What does not balance is Brooks' Strangelovian mix of comic terror and terrorist comedy. Give him points...
...PROPRIETY of Horner's individual decision, then, hinges not on any conflict of interest but on the merits of the AWACS issue itself. And given that no other pressures worked upon Horner, she had a special responsibility to make a cogent case for the sale. That responsibility, to understand the complexities and likely impact of the sale, seems particularly great given the less-than-wholesome aura of its origin a corporate conclave in Riyadh apparently teeming with Saudi influence-peddlers...
...back on New Dealcum-Edward M. Kennedy-business-as-usual, election gains will yield just another chapter in the four-year cycle of policy failure followed by a cry to throw the rascals out. Hart and his colleagues have between them a blueprint for the future of America, a cogent, coherent plan for governing this country in a difficult age. And that is more than anyone else on the scene has to offer...
...belief in a cancer-prone character type, "far from being confined to the back yard of folk superstition, passes for the most advanced medical thinking." Sontag attempts to refute such theories, ascribing them to fear and ignorance in the face of a disease that eludes any comprehensive cure. Yet, cogent arguments seem pale beside Zorn's anguished testimony. Testimony that drowns out dissent through its own vehemence...