Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...revisions include removing questions that the council feels deal more with the instructor's performance than with the intellectual content of a course, the deletion of the grading distribution in each course and the omisison of letters from administrators, presently included in the book...
...unbelievably pretentious bore) to get out of town before sundown a month ago. Yet the sun keeps setting on this tale of a clock tinkerer whose son turns terrorist. Phillipe Noiret is still quivering with emotion for two hours, and anything more has failed to materialize. Director Taverneir is content to focus on Noiret's face forever--who need dialogue, plot, or motivations? Apparently not Taverneir. Noiret has an occasional temper tantrum, which might in some circles pass for character development. We, however, are still not buying...
Odell, who took leave of active CIA duty in 1965 to study for a year at the Littauer School of Public Administration, tells his tales with conviction and sincerity despite their incredible content. He first began to reveal some of his history in late October to William Beecher, diplomatic correspondent for the Boston Globe. At that time, Odell decided to "go public" about his background and disclose some of the things he knows. ("I'm wired," he says. "I know more than you'll ever dream.") With passionate intensity he states his motivation in coming out: "I finally got tired...
...does not want to risk losing his audience. (Nothing clears the room faster than a whiff of intellectual substance.) Already, he notes, he is viewed in some quarters as "cranky and pedantic." Since his cause is crucial, and the need for converts great, perhaps he is right to be content with taking a different risk: that A Civil Tongue, as it follows Strictly Speaking on the bestseller lists, will be found merely entertaining by the people it ought to Sting. Christopher Porterfield
...word made flesh we want in writing, in poetry and fiction, but the flesh made word." In Gass's view, the truly "blue" writers are not those who flaunt explicitness but those whose works demonstrate "love lavished on speech of any kind, regardless of content and intention...