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Almost universally, Perk's idea was condemned as a copout. "A ridiculous diversion," scoffed the Cleveland Plain Dealer, which has been uncovering much of the chicanery. Republican Perk's political opponents said that he was merely grandstanding to raise support for his announced candidacy for the U.S. Senate, and indeed Perk has been having trouble getting his campaign off the ground. Speaking of the clergymen, Gerald T. McFaul, Democratic majority leader in the city council, thundered...
...guess the underlying reason why Harvard came from ahead to lose to a team it had earlier annihilated, 82-31, was the home advantage. For instance, a team is hardly ever disqualified at home, only on the road. It's a copout to blame the Crimson's defeat on such a nebulous sports phrase as "home advantage," but I must confess I just can't think of any other reason...
...down on them or their poorest dreams. Yet he does make it clear that Vic's accurate reading of the situation-why should he assume the burden of anyone's ambitions but his own?-is also a dodge. His idea of freedom is a sort of emotional copout, a yearning not so much to find something as to be away from everything. In this most of all, Eastman suggests, Vic is the all-American...
...some staff members, who feel that this phase may not prove fruitful. "We could close up shop and write our report right now," declared one staff member. Yet, whether the hearings are televised or not, to end them after exploring only the Watergate crisis would amount to a committee copout...
...copout of Tanner's ending becomes clear. To leave her unhappy, given her shallow personality and Tanner's feeble analysis would have been too heavy-handed given the film as it stands. To make his social criticism, she must be unhappy. To make his "artistic" statement, she must be happy and free. Neither solution is satisfactory...