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...once-comfortable abode of Ronald Reagan, William F. Buckley, and Richard Nixon is being revolutionized by an unprecedented number of right-wing libertarians and anarchists. Committed to a Jeffersonian creed of decentralism, tolerance, and laissez-faire, thousands of right-wingers are turning on their conservative leadership, denouncing conservative principles of discipline, authority, and a strong state, and in many cases repudiating America as vehemently as the radical left...
...first film for $82,000 at the age of 32. When pressed, he expressed some concern for the economic restructuring of the film industry itself. But he did not feel that he or his films should propose alternatives. His attitudes reflected an art for art's sake creed. Though he felt that American students had gotten the FLQ situation confused, that what held French-Canadians back industrially is their own repressive, Church-oriented ethnic tradition, he does not want to make a film on the subject: "It would have to be too informational.... I'm interested in the emotions...
...working out, and the angry murmurs in the lounges of the Somerset and Union clubs died down somewhat. But to the traditional Brahmin, religion has always been more lip service than piety, and the idea that a Harvard President should be fanatical enough about his almost evangelical creed to stake the good name of the University on its preservation was abhorrent. When Pusey made the Christian purity of the Church a cause celebre, instead of acceding gracefully, in what Santayana would call the genteel tradition, he signed his death warrant as an effective president. Cries for his resignation were raised...
...week, Trudeau's government repeatedly cited three reasons for its tough action, and each seemed to have at least some validity. First, Ottawa felt it had to counter what one official called "an erosion of public opinion" in Quebec, whose French-Canadian population might have embraced the separatist creed more warmly than ever had the government wavered in the face of the F.L.Q. challenge; that fear was heightened by the fact that Montreal is holding municipal elections this week. Second, Ottawa wanted to reassert the principle of federalism as strongly as possible. Finally, there was the F.L.Q. itself, which...
...immediate reaction of many playgoers was that no wife and mother would behave that way. But, as Esslin keeps saying, Pinter is an existential playwright. His brief basic creed holds that human nature is not fixed and ordained, either by divine law or some ingrained edict governing the behavior of the species. Man instead defines himself in moment-to-moment acts that may be quite contradictory. This accounts for the breath-stopping power of the totally unexpected in a Pinter play...