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Most of the problem of dependency in America today is the byproduct of a defunct system of Southern agriculture. It has been a kind of fly-now, pay-later arrangement, only the bills come due not in Mississippi but in Chicago. A lot of persons in Chicago ask, reasonably enough, in what way they are responsible and why they should...
...Ireland and renounced his citizenship, hoping to leave his critics far behind him. Unfortunately, the critics now feel free to attack whenever possible. When receiving The Bible, most of the big-time New York critics waxed nostalgic for the DeMille days of yore. (Gary Arnold, in the now defunct Diplomat, recognized the great irony: Huston and DeMille were the legitimate and bastard heirs to Griffith's narrative film style. Huston translated it into lean, expressive prose, DeMille into doggerel,) Such creditable films as Reflections in a Golden Eve or A Walk with Love and Death are ignored altogether...
Whenever the Government writes a blank check to the housing industry, some sort of scandal is likely to result. Under the Federal Housing Administration's long defunct Section 608 program, builders in the early 1950s ended the postwar shortage of rental housing by erecting half a million apartments. In the process, many builders pocketed millions of dollars of unearned profit from mortgage loans that exceeded the cost of construction. The loans were based on FHA cost estimates, and nobody had told the agency to check on whether its estimates exceeded costs actually incurred. They often did. The upshot...
...group-many of whose members were active in the now-defunct November Action Coalition-is attempting to set up a citywide mass meeting which would convene and decide upon action to follow an escalation in much the same way as "The Day After" (TDA) march followed the trial of the Chicago eight...
...shambles by the early sixties" that Sarris claims. And despite the spiritual association Sarris (and nearly every other film critic) attempts to make with James Agee, he is far removed from that critic's quality. Though Sarris, while writing for Film Culture, the Village Voice, or the defunct N. Y. Film Bulletin has taken what he calls "passionate risks" on behalf of personal preferences, he evinces no primary need to analyze a film rigorously, except on its own terms (and that unevenly); neither does he feel a need to posit aesthetic values according to the complexities of pleasures they afford...