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...faculty greeted the report - particularly its mentor recommendations - with "massive indifference," Hoskins remembers. If anything, only a small appendix note on a possible change in the lengths of the school term to save money caused any stir. But that stir was strong enough to distract the faculty from the other 117 pages of the Dahl Report. The appendix suggested that the school should remain open all year to try to increase tuition revenue without crowding classes. "The debate on the report waged on that appendix," William Kessen, Yale professor of psychology and committee member, recalls. Ironically, after all "that vigorous...
Does Russell actually believe such nonsense? Probably not, but it is a good excuse for hurling self-consciously shocking images upon the screen. These, in turn, are obviously designed to distract us from the fact that the film is intellectually bankrupt, unconcerned with historical characters or events. Russell's gift for imagery is undeniable; his outrages grab our attention even as common sense whispers that they are false, strained, childish in the worst sense. But the sensations have only a short-term effect; the mind cannot be conned. One leaves the theater feeling manipulated, ill-used, ripped...
...Square were pushing The Female Imagination for Mother's Day. Most of the writers Spacks critiques seem to have found motherhood a destructive condition--a cause for utmost ambivalence in virtually all women. The beautiful woman dreads that pregnancy will disfigure her. The career woman fears that motherhood will distract her. And the growing woman fears that motherhood will enslave her. Spacks again finds that an adolescent, in this case. Esther Greenwood from The Bell Jar, sees most explicitly the destructiveness which this particular kind of creativity can cause...
Recognizing the potential risk in their jobs, hit men often ape the tactics of their counterparts in organized crime, carefully timing and rehearsing their jobs, using accomplices to distract their victims, noting the nearest exits, and leaving cars at the curb with motors running...
Those who argued that the imminent prospect of widespread starvation should not distract the delegates from formulating long-term goals were, however, frustrated by conceptual wrangling. Last week Conference Secretary-General Sayed Ahmed Marei of Egypt said that several oil-producing countries had agreed to help finance a billion dollar program for an agriculture-development fund to help food-deficient countries. Unfortunately, Marei's announcement proved to be premature. By week's end the various OPEC delegations had become embroiled in disputes over what criteria should be used to fix the participants' contributions. The conference closed recommending...