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Depending on which of these two powerful characters the reader chooses to focus upon or identify with, The Shad Treatment can assume rather different kinds of significance. Evans's personal story is one with which many students--and even more of the recent alumni--can easily identify. Mac Evans, the narrator of the novel, describes in detail his disaffection with Harvard, its students, and especially its administration; he tells of being slowly but surely drawn first into sympathy with, and then active involvement in radical politics during the late '60s. He describes a famous scene outside Quincy House, when former...
...issue facing Carter proved to be the focus of a high degree of voter concern. Fully 65% of those polled expressed the fear that there would not be enough money left in the Government's Social Security pot by the time they were ready to retire. Asked about Carter's proposal to boost the Social Security tax for employers and workers, 56% of the Democrats who were polled found it to be "fair," while 54% of Republicans called the proposal "unfair...
...chief administrator in Czechoslovakia since 1969. Tomášek was made a cardinal in secret a year ago, but relations with the Communist regime have remained so poor that the Vatican decided that revealing the appointment would do no harm and might give oppressed Czech believers a focus for unity...
...more people under his own control. "I'd do better if there was just Landon Butler and me and two secretaries, instead of even the six or seven people I have now. Then I would have time to think and reflect on the things I want to focus...
These characters and their struggle to emerge intact from their '60s idealism, are the focus of the film, for the plot which frames that struggle is pure cliche. The big, bad conglomerate is just too predictably bull-headed, so intent on lancing any threats to its authority that journalistic quality ceases to matter. On the other hand, the idyllic days of hard-nosed investigative reporting, exposes and journalism prizes emerge in vague, rosy-colored hues through the sheen of memory. Sitting in bed after a bout of adultery with Harry, Laura rummages through a sheaf of old photographs and reminisces...