Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...different fantasies of Harwick resisting entering the sanitarium, in which he imagines himself Quasimodo. Chappaqua proceeds best when, as in the above examples, it moves constantly, uses hand-held camera with validity and a lack of predictability, and uses cutting to isolate moments while basically advancing action, also to destroy conventional barriers between illusion and reality and normal concepts of time sequence. If the later half of the film becomes episodic, cutting more deliberately between hospital scenes and Harwick's fantastic mind projections, it is so in deference to autobiographical honesty and documentary reality...
Your letter to me, and your even more pompous letter to my son, show no glint of comprehension of what is self evidently a most difficult and agonizing problem. It is entirely possible to defend Dow Chemical's right to destroy its corporate reputation by sending its agents to the Harvard Yard--and I would agree with you on this--without implying, as your letters do, that the protection of suppliers of napalm is a virtuous cause and that all sin lies with those who, in a groping and adolescent way are, trying to preserve their university from what they...
...automatically conclude that a priest who has left the church did so because of "Punch or Judy" trouble-drink or women-many are still suspicious. Parents are especially prone to disappointment. One Chicago ex-priest received a letter from his father that read: "You are doing your best to destroy a very happy home. Your mother and I have not slept since you left...
...years ago, St. James, Mo., looked like a town that was out to win the grand prize for uglification. Long distinguished by its handsome trees, the town of 3,000 inhabitants, which nestles in the Ozark foothills, had called in bulldozers and chain-saw gangs to systematically destroy nearly every one of its existing trees...
Several RGA members objected to the RUS constitution's assertion of autonomy. "It would destroy meaningful channels of communication with the Administration," said Anne Rightor '69, a strong supporter of last week's RUA constitution...