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...away from him. Though it's an old game for all of them, the beating is more physically wrenching than any of the film's splashy shootings. When the detectives have all the information they can get, Doyle exacts a last, unnecessary ounce of submission by forcing him to confess to nonsense accusations by the threat of more beating. The nonsense-accusation sequence is a suspect-baiting device Friedkin picked up from Detective Eddie Egan, the cop on whom Doyle's character is based, who plays the narcotics division chief to Russo and Doyle (Gene Hackman) in Connection...
Just as in the fight for the Irish Free State, when the bishops favored British rule but the priests sympathized with the republicans, there are plenty of priests today who openly aid the army. "We condemn them and we confess them," as one Ulster priest puts it. Some of them have called upon the hierarchy to denounce both the British practice of interning suspected revolutionaries and the guerrillas' use of violence. One pro-army priest, Father Michael Connolly of Tipperary, flamboyantly asserts that the I.R.A. campaign is "not just a war, but a holy war against pagans and people...
People at Harvard are unusually good targets for a campaign in support of passivity. Like Dr. Ellsberg, we have the most valuable interests to protect. Like Dr. Ellsberg, we have the most sins to confess. Like Dr. Ellsberg, we would have to take drastic initiative to break loose, even to preserve an academic integrity in an institution whose social attitudes often grow from nineteenth century intellectual seeds...
Bunting and Chayes are only slightly less excited. Bunting did confess however that "I've had a hope that someone would come along with a position like McGovern's but a little more pizzazz." And when asked how he rated McGovern's chances realistically. Chayes--clearly irritated at the pessimism surrounding his candidate--replied quickly: "Better than everyone else rates them realistically...
...mother, Laurent is installed at an elegant rest home. They share the same room, and eventually the same secrets. Laurent has long known of Mamma's extramarital affair; when it ends he comforts her. She in turn gives him advice about his girl friends. Mother and son confess their admiration for each other, their dependency on each other, their love for each other, which one night becomes passionately incestuous. Next morning, after Laurent has sneaked out of his mother's bed to pass the remainder of the night with a girl friend, father and brothers appear. Tousled, shoes...