Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...NIGHT OF THE FOLLOWING DAY is one of the tensest, toughest thrillers anyone could ask for. But Director Hubert Cornfield is not content to stop there; he creates a surreal seminar in the poetics of violence. The small cast is uniformly good, and Marlon Brando is back in great form playing a hipster-hood...
...interview somehow gets around to the Streisand kinship. Roz insists that "if I could just do a fourth of what my sister did, or maybe half, I'd be happy. So long as I've done it on my own." So far, the only person who seems content to see Roz make it on her own has been Barbra herself, who has limited her encouragement to one phone call and a telegram...
...time being, Congress will probably content itself with imposing further limitations on lumber exports to Japan. Such restrictions should help to relieve the shortage and ease prices. On the other hand, they would undercut Washington's goals of fostering free world trade and improving the U.S.'s balance of trade. In any case, Congress can scarcely overlook the need to revamp the nation's timber management policies. That is something that Washington has not done for 30 years...
What might be the content of a "radical" interpretation of American history? Where might one begin? And how might one define the terms, American and radical? The questions are important to contemporary radicals and to American citizens in general, but the answers we have received so far have been fragmentary and contradictory...
...other hand, radicals can look to contemporary moral thinkers of various hues--Herbert Marcuse, R. D. Laing, Albert Camus, Leroi Jones--who level their sights at the attitudes rather than the content of the American historical picture, and explode the necessity as well as the desirability of such American traits as self-advancement, money-mania, and social indifference. Their complaints, taken at the aesthetic and philosophical levels, reach us through a different tradition than the complaints of historians, but they are more powerful for that fact, and, indeed, for their stark prescience, seem to need none of their Hegelian...