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...comfort to the narrow and meanspirited. Acutely conscious that middle-and low-income whites alike were resentful of the special efforts that were being made to ease the plight of America's 20 million blacks, Nixon adopted a hands-off approach. His textual justification, wrenched out of its context, was Moynihan's statement that "the time may have come when the issue of race could benefit from a period of benign neglect." Moynihan was saying not only that the issue had been "too much talked about" but also that other minorities (Indians, Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans) were...
UNFORTUNATELY, Eugene Lee's set does not provide a physical context for the actors that can compare with the highly-nuanced emotional context they create. The play is set in Wakefield, Massachusetts, a small town north of Boston. All action takes place in the home of Margaret and Will. Lee captures the bleak and barren quality of their marriage in the dingy walls and sparse furnishing of his interior but somehow he fails to convey the sense that this is a distinctly American environment. Instead, the setting seems more suited to Pinter's Birthday Party than a play...
...from Sontag would do in stopping the drain of support for Israel on the American left), she seems to have classified Israelis into two groups, the hawks (here represented by Harkavi) and the doves (much more favorably represented by Kenan), a division which may make sense in an American context, but not in an Israeli one. By including both in her film, she could honestly say that, despite her disagreements with the hawks, she had allowed both tendencies in Israeli politics to have their...
...Read that a number of times [unintelligible] different context...
...statement may seem a bit startling, but not in the context of the economist's arguments, not after he has presented one by one the enormous problems and the inadequate solutions the future will almost surely bring in our own lifetimes...