Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Roosevelt, on the strength of that formidable name and familiar grin, is striving to resurrect a once promising political career. After three terms in Congress, he lost a bid for the gubernatorial nomination in 1954, settled for the attorney general's candidacy, and went down to defeat while the rest of the Democratic ticket was elected. He fell into relative obscurity in Washington, first as an automobile dealer, then as Under Secretary of Commerce, and finally as chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, from which he resigned last week...
...then, a bit of plot sprouts through the film's glossy surfaces, most of it familiar knavery about the assassination of a Middle Eastern Prime Minister. The P.M.'s life depends on Professor Peck's ability to drag himself away from his archaeological tomes and from Double Spy Sophia long enough to decode a message in hieroglyphics. Though Peck looks comfortable enough in the library, he resembles a stand-in for Gary Grant when he seeks refuge in Sophia's shower, fidgeting while the lady purrs: "Call me Yasmin-at least while...
Vietnam in Turmoil, shown Wednesday at the Harvard Square Theatre, represents a new breed of films: the travelogue-war movie. Here is the familiar inane narration describing stray bits of native culture for Western eyes. Here is the widespread dullness of staged photography: the religious dance performed in an empty temple, or the peasant family seemingly ordered to cook a meal for the camera's benefit. Even when the camera turns to something indisputably real--such as the wreckage of the American Embassy or the ashes of a farmer's hut--it always seems to be missing not only...
...themselves in such a metropolitan role, and there is always the possibility that a suburban-outside combine will veto measures designed to solve primarily urban problems. Meanwhile, the game of state politics is becoming increasingly monotonous, and most voters will probably remain content to leave the same familiar, comfortable people in office at election time...
...Somehow we must come to grips with the ideas of academicians, journalists," Brooke says," and the majority of Americans who speak and vote against us." Eager for the approval of intellectuals, he is now so familiar with Harvard surroundings that he greets the gardners and cooks as old chums on arriving at the Faculty Club. He is certainly receptive to professor's ideas--it is the dearth of his own positive thinking that is bothersome...