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...times he was forced to go this route to promote his films. He is painfully conscious of the demeaning role he is in, and at times he seems ready to explode at the idiocy of it all, as when the interviewers praise Morituri, and then confess under his questioning that they actually hadn't seen the movie...

Author: By Seth Kaplan, | Title: The smell of failure, fear of defeat | 9/30/1976 | See Source »

...famed pickhandles and what I had heard about them when Young interrupted my thoughts to remind me once again that there was nothing symbolic about the pickhandle. "He never actually wielded a pickhandle, now did he?" Young asks. "You ever seen a picture of that?" I had to confess that I hadn't, although I did remember a photo of Maddox wielding a gun when chasing blacks away from his restaurant...

Author: By Jonathan H. Alter, | Title: The Soap Box, The Ballot Box, The Jury Box and The Cartridge Box | 9/27/1976 | See Source »

More than a few people in University Hall, the Faculty's nerve center, confess to being baffled by the vagueness of Horner's job. They know she has an office on the first floor of University Hall but they're not sure what she does there or what she wants. And since Horner symbolizes Radcliffe, that institution appears equally vague...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Horner's Radcliffe: A state of flux | 9/24/1976 | See Source »

...which is considered more important, for overcoming personal problems such as being shy or cowardly, as shown in survival tests the school has copied from Outward Bound. The grades in character development are hammered out in a kind of encounter group, where classmates and teachers urge a student to confess his strengths and weaknesses. In similar sessions, teachers are evaluated publicly by the students...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: School of Hard Knocks | 8/9/1976 | See Source »

...good reason" to act with limited force to protect its citizens from an "imminent threat of injury or death in a situation where the state in whose territory they are located is either unwilling or unable to protect them." The rescue, Scranton added, "electrified millions everywhere, and-I confess-I was one of them." The British were nearly as emphatic in their backing of Israel, although the French-apparently concerned about the fate of the $19 million Air France jet that was still sitting at Entebbe-were characteristically ambivalent and careful not to insult Amin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRORISM: Vindication for the Israelis | 7/26/1976 | See Source »

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