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...Hour. Rarely has so much been insinuated to so many by so few real facts-or by such edited and contrived film footage. We are shown the brave defenders amidst their showcase rubble and under their manhole covers; Hanoi's almost tranquil orderliness contrasted with the confusion of corrupt Saigon; and with presumably straight faces we watch the military traffic flow south to fight the American aggressors, having only admiration for the resiliency and cleverness of the North Vietnamese as they thwart our attempts to prevent their takeover of the South. A natural sympathy for a beleaguered people becomes...
...protesting activists, still a very small minority, overlook the accomplishments of society but criticize its shortcomings. Possibly idealistic but skeptical of ideologies, they contend that governments have not performed up to their original promises. The student leftists disdain Soviet-style Communism as spiritually corrupt. The democrats fault the West's inequalities of wealth and race...
...boss, played by Orson Welles, wants him back. Eventually Welles, whose acting is confined to grinning like a corrupt Buddha, removes the Gadfly's sting by acquiring its assets and offices. Undone, Andrew makes one more commercial, this one about Truth. The night of a banquet for the Creativity in Advertising awards, he unreels it-a naive diatribe against planned obsolescence that includes footage of a bulldozer shoveling bodies at Buchenwald and an atomic mushroom cloud rising while a little girl sings All Things Bright and Beautiful...
West Germany's leftist students idealize violence as a necessary weapon for revolution against what they consider their country's corrupt and repressive society. After their leader, Rudi Dutschke, was badly wounded by a would-be assassin two weeks ago, the students staged violent and bloody demonstrations in virtually every major city. Last week, bruised and battered from police truncheons, they were having some second thoughts about the efficacy of violence. They had, in fact, found neither violence so romantic nor West German society so weak as they had imagined...
...prosecution, Thomas P. Mc-Govern a school psychologist in Wiburn, testified that isolated words in Avatar, such as "analism," and "fellatio," could excite an adolescent to "research their meaning and try them." Such exposure, he said, could corrupt the morals of youth...