Word: formulas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Still more important, though, is the conflict here between principle and expediency. At what point does a person find himself compelled to say "no" to an expedient (even "reasonable") measure and declare his ethical-moral position? I cannot prescribe a formula for something like this as a doctor might; rather, I am suggesting that (1) there are often cases when a position simply must be taken, fully aware that the consequences may not be very desirable, and (2) there is no doctor; each individual must decide for himself on the proper course of action; no oracle or soothsayer is around...
NONETHELESS, the potential for new formula exists in these films. We are familiar with the story of the country innocent corrupted by the wicked city, a plot-type appearing frequently from Griffith's Way Down East through Chabrol's Les Cousins. Hollywood has begun to alter this: the conclusion of the product-mongers appears to be that innocence--at least sexual innocence--no longer exists anywhere, certainly not in the country. Hollywood is probably right: God knows they helped make it that way, and God know there's no money to be made in innocence. The three runaways in Dreifuss...
Read literally, the Vice President's pronouncement was at best an insignificant deviation from Johnson's "San Antonio formula" of a year ago or the President's New Orleans speech last month. In both statements, the President emphasized that some reciprocity from Hanoi was necessary before the U.S. could undertake a bombing halt...
...this time, most viewers will easily be able to program the conclusion. Nonetheless, they can console themselves by enjoying a pair of sly performances by Smith and Ustinov, and a witty narrative of crime without punishment that has not quite been folded, spindled or mutilated into familiar formula...
...Banish Kapitalizm. Solzhenitsyn is a rare master of the Russian language ?not the debased, impenetrably formula-ridden Russian produced by two decades of Stalinist newspapers, schoolbooks and speeches, but the rich mother Russian that calls on all the ancient, all the regional, and all the poetic