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Most of White's appointments have been excellent. His own personal staff is very strong and Hale Champion, the new Boston Redevelopment Authority administrator, is a veteran of California politics. If White were willing to call upon these people for advice and to ignore those who'd drag photogenic cots into the Mayor's office and declare a state of emergency every time a traffic light fails to work, he'd probably have many more successes like the Welfare financing incident and very few blunders like the hasty and careless attempt to remove Commissioner McNamera...
...that a good way to save on dialogue is to let each of the "ride-bys"-the good guys chasing the bad guys-run on for an extra 20 seconds or so. Says one TV writer: "The civil rights movement has saved us temporarily. What we do now is drag out one of the old plots and add a new sociological dimension by casting a Negro in a lead role...
Though the interview with the American flyer was interesting, there are other digressions which drag. Greene's interviews with North Vietnamese officials add little. Greene's would have done better to stick to his theme of the effects of the war on daily life, rather than wasting time shooting interviews with Hanoi official-dom. Other baldly ideological sequences pall, such as scenes of marching North Vietnamese soldiers (there is "no conscription" in North Vietnam, maintains Greene) striding forward to the tunes of the Liberation Hymn of South Vietnam...
Harvard's play throughout wasn't anything for impressionable young hockey players to be exposed to, although a team of Penn's caliber tends to drag its opponents down to its own level...
...labor, which Marx saw as a tool of the socialist apocalypse, was simply the proliferation of stultifying jobs. Yet the descendants of Morris' socialist working men have now settled for the machine-made blessings of the welfare state, stultifying or not. They would sooner be caught in drag than dancing on the greensward in homespun or chipping gargoyles on a cathedral...