Word: elliott
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...like colonialism, depends for its power on dividing the people and maintaining a "community of individuals" who fear and distrust each other, where each of the oppressed also acts as oppressor. Semiradical films like Getting Straight and M*A*S*H work to sustain this reactionary disunity, for when Elliott Gould comes on with a cute male-chauvinist line, putting down women and smoothing it all over with a few chuckles, he contributes to the process of syncretism. Individual alienation is cemented into group consciousness, resulting in a general subservience and thought-control, keeping us together by keeping us apart...
...been fired by Jack Warner and tangled with a lot of lesser producers. Richard Zanuck, chief of 20th Century-Fox, says that he would never have hired Altman for his last picture if he had known that Altman had previously made That Cold Day in the Park. Elliott Gould compared Altman to General Custer: "He always seemed on the verge of some sort of external defeat." But since his last stand, no one is bad-mouthing Bob Altman, least of all Zanuck, Fox or Gould. The picture was M*A*S*H, and it is one of the runaway hits...
...Rest or Peace. At issue was the case of Elliott A. Welsh II, a 28-year-old Los Angeles commodities broker who applied for draft exemption in 1964. In filling out the C.O. form, Welsh carefully crossed out the words "religious training," in part to show that he opposed war on broader historical, philosophical and sociological principles. When his application was denied, he refused induction and was sentenced to three years in prison...
Bettman, calling his Ode a "monument to obscurity," said that he agreed with what Elliott had written, but added that his poem was probably a little more circumspect about...
...arts, Harvard honored American composer Elliott C. Carter '30 with a Doctor of Music and architect Marcel Breuer, master of the famous Bauhaus in Dessau, Germany, with a Doctor of Arts...