Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...outward form, David Rabe's trilogy of military plays, The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel, Sticks and Bones, and now Streamers, appears to be about the brutalizing effect of army life and the scourge of Viet Nam on the U.S. conscience. In inner content, they are more like detonations of the individual psyche -a simple soul goes berserk...
These two complaints underlie a serious problem that pervades the pages of The Crimson. This is the apparent inability of The Crimson to confine its editorial views to the editorial pages. Consistently, articles seem slanted in both style and content. Rather than responsibly presenting the news as disinterestedly as possible, stories seem to be selected for editorial impact, and then written in a manner that is decidedly biased...
Klein says of Carter: "He is willing to accept good advice, makes sharp intuitive appraisals and picks up complicated economic ideas very fast." According to other aides, Carter is not content with oral briefings but insists that economic ideas be put on paper so that he can read them...
Initially I was content to enjoy the coziness of it all. But slowly I perceived that there was more to my ease than merely returning to a place where I had lived before. There are striking resemblances between the community I now found myself in and the one I had just left in far-off Borneo. A couple of examples will illustrate the varying levels at which I noted similarities...
...them must have been taking notes at all times, to hear W&B tell it. The crises (the Saturday Night Massacre, the Judiciary Committee's impeachment vote, the subpoenas, the "smoking pistol") are the places in the narrative where W&B are strongest, where their style best fits the content. That style, not surprisingly, is newspaper style: short sentences, short paragraphs, plenty of facts, active verbs. In these sections, W&B are invincible--you find yourself damaging the pages from turning them so fast...