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...that nearsighted view of progress, says Williams College's Sheafe Satterthwaite, lies the crux of the problem: American industrial architecture can be preserved only if the people's viewpoint is changed...
...with an indiscriminate cuteness. Two of the funniest sequences, the exchange of coincidences between a married couple not sure they are married and the fireman's ridiculous tale of "the Headcold," fall dead. In the latter case, the actor actually reads the speech, stifling the spontaneity that is the crux of the joke. Most of what does arouse the audience comes from the drooping mouth of W. Bruce Johnson, who looks like a young Walter Matthau and acts with a delicate understatement that generally works. But he alone cannot overcome the director's static imagination...
...kind of power over Erie County (including Buffalo). Although they have not officially supported Kennedy, they do not hide their feelings. A strong county chairman has unmatched influence because he--not a United States Senator or Governor--directly controls the lower-level patronage and favor-dispensation which remain the crux of American politics even when the nation...
...York Times and Christopher Lasch in The New York Review of Books. For some the book was a disappointment; it was not radical enough--it established violence as disfunctional in the course of Black Power politics. Others complained that the book was not programatic--it gave the crux of the problem with only vague outlines of solutions...
...crux of the problem is not that these students can't get out--it's why they got in in the first place, and once in, why they should feel cheated. When a significant proportion of a school's students are unhappy with the school's education, then one must either revise the admissions policies which accepts them, or revise the educational policies which instruct them. To quietly encourage them to leave is an easy way out, but it in no way solves the basic problem...