Word: documentation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...free of that special form of impatience-oversimplified ideology. Never had such forbearance and such a talent for political compromise been demanded of a body politic as the power-wary, pragmatic Founding Fathers required of the citizens of the United States of America. The U.S. Constitution is the great document of patience-with-a-purpose. It has inevitably helped mold the national character of the Americans who serve it-and whom it serves...
Finally, unless this translation was intended as a document of historical curiosity, why did it take eight years to bring it to an eagerly waiting public? The translator admits taking four, which is difficult to understand; this leaves four years to the University of Illinois Press, which seems unprofitable...
...lead to any convictions or indictments, though Imperial Wizard Robert Shelton, four grand dragons, a kludd and a kladd were cited for contempt of Congress. Yet the inquiry served a useful purpose, if only by giving an opportunity to a sorry klutch of knackers, knarks and Knipperdollings* to document for themselves that "the invisible empire" is moved as much by dollar lust as by racial hatred...
...study, however, is a human as well as a scientific document, and it reports candidly on the Peace Corps' failures as well as its successes...
...experience of being in India that the film quickly rises above mere propaganda and becomes a fascinating piece of social documentary. The confrontation of an ancient society with the representatives of modern American life is captured permanently on the screen. A Choice I Made is a social document of first-magnitude. It is also a superb film...