Word: generalized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...speech is a fairly good indication of the general level of wit to be found in Putney Swope, a frenzied, almost desperate comedy by a barely emerged underground film maker named Robert Downey. Downey-who bills himself in the credits as "a prince"-has got it into his royal head that what America really needs at this point in its history is another put-down of the advertising business. Accordingly, he has come up with the not totally unpromising notion of a group of black militants taking over an ad agency and bombarding the country with race propaganda concealed inside...
Thus, the appeal of rent control as an issue--and the need to keep the housing convention going--made it likely that many a sign would be waved and many a voice would be raised on the issue. Yet more general factors--the style of Cambridge politics and the idea behind the agitation over the specific issue of rent control--were also at work...
...GENERAL PUBLIC suffered through another concert in Sanders Theatre last Monday night. Why Harvard is the only school of any consequence anywhere in the country without a decent concert hall no one can explain. Most of us are tired of quarters for violin, cello, piano and street noises and tired of wiping out neighbors' sweat off our knees. It is a disgrace to force any musicians of merit to attempt to perform in the decrepit fire trap...
...Spanish architecture, monuments and statuary versus shots of the people gaily swinging through the busy streets of Brazil's modern cities, qua qua. And there to help them is American business, working and playing to build a strong, free Western Hemisphere. The whole gang's on hand: Coke, Ford, General Motors, Shell, Texaco, Esso, Frank Sinatra, even Helena Rubinstein with American beauty standards. But the spoken narration puts this post-card Brazil into perspective, reciting figures on the present-day poverty of the Brazilian people, on the history of foreign profiteering. The Old and the New are but emblems...
Critics argue that the dole does little to stimulate a welfare recipient, while general manpower or rehabiliation programs oftentimes attempt to educate a group en masse and thus again defeat their own purpose by avoiding the problems of the individual...