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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...early primaries-a gamble that could leave Reagan without the will and resources for the long difficult fight now necessary to eliminate Ford. Reagan contended that he was "happy" to "come out with a virtual tie with the incumbent President." His showing was indeed impressive in a historical context, but in fact his aides expected him to win. Now Reagan badly needs to defeat Ford in Florida to erase the "Reagan can't win" label that Ford's men are pushing...
...diary are fairly banal, but as his experience begins to baffle him, the tone of his writings become progressively more psychotic, until it reaches an Arthur Bremer-like level of intensity. Scorsese plays on our knowledge of real assassins, but he doesn't abuse it. He provides the context; our sense of history merges seamlessly with our understanding of Travis...
Mainstage director Stephen Kolzak has adapted the play to contemporary Europe, drastically altering the context of Ibsen's plot. Much of the play is a dialectic between Alving's vision and Manders's morality; modernization of script and set has reversed their roles. What was once Alving's radical individualism becomes the commonplace assertion of a "liberated woman." Manders, formerly the embodiment of societal mores, is now the anachronism: his fervent preaching seems too silly to be evil. In the 1970's, fighting convention is convention and criticizing the establishment is the main chore of that establishment...
Schorr's rebuttal, replies Times Editorial Page Editor John B. Oakes, is "irrelevant. What we make money from, which is publishing the news, seems to me totally a different context from what Schorr did, which was to traffic in the news." As for the Pentagon paperback, Oakes argues, all the Times did was to publish in more permanent form what had already appeared in the newspaper; what the Times opposes, says Oakes, is "selling to a third party, no matter for how lofty a cause...
This tactic makes even less sense since anti-Communism itself soon will become entirely obsolete in the Italian context. Barring a miracle (and no doubt the fervent anti-Communist Pope Paul prays for this nightly) the PC will receive a plurality in the national elections next year. The Italian weekly Expresso recently released a poll indicating that an election at the present time would give the PC such a victory. In that case, the PC could not be denied participation--of some variety--in the government. It is clear then that anti-Communism will soon cease to be a viable...