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...certainly was not without blame. He was, and remains in my view, a shameful, cynical politician who discovered how to play skillfully on peoples' emotions for his own gain. But it is much too facile to dismiss the evils and anguish that wracked campuses and country at that time by simply naming him as scapegoat and letting the rest of society off scot-free...
Democratic leaders in the Congress tried to dismiss the Nixon message as a routine post-Labor Day political attack. House Democratic Whip Hale Boggs said that Nixon was only trying to "divert public attention from the failures of his own Administration...
Though some traditionalists would like to dismiss Chance as a brash upstart, at 30 he is actually a year older than Stephens was when he helped design the 1937 Cup winner. Ranger. And, like the old master, he is very much to the manner born. A product of Philadelphia's Main Line, Chance has been a water baby "since my mother dropped me overboard when I was two." His father won a yachting gold medal in the 1952 Olympics. Sisters Jan and Elli are top small-boat skippers, while Uncle Henry is a noted ocean racer. Brit Jr. began...
...they're not dissuaded." Thus, instead of going to college, which she considers unnecessary, Susan is working for YES (Youth Emergency Service), a telephone referral service for troubled kids, which she helped start in Minneapolis this year. Later she hopes to study in Europe. Says Davis: "You can't dismiss them as young, ethereal dreamers. Their premises, whether right or wrong, are based on homework. They make them...
...judge-to-judge, and the film ends with that frozen image, exactly at the right instant. The director would have negated all the force he had coolly built up had he answered the question for us, either alternative being a catharsis that would allow us to dismiss and assimilate the work immediately. Instead he leaves on the screen the formulated proposition, the existential choice, to be or not to be a revolutionary, the ultimate opportunity and necessity for real action. (There is no safe outlet here, no wish-fulfillment fantasy-exorcism that Antonioni provides in Zabriskie Point...