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This indicates the main weakness of the book, which is not in the guidelines but in the philosophy behind them. In their endless series of distinctions, the authors gloss over the crucial one-that between universities and other institutional investors. The millions in university endowments, unlike those of mutual funds and insurance companies, carry with them the assumption that they are being used to serve the public good; it is on the basis of this assumption that they were collected, and, in fact, that the University remains open. The humanitarian assumptions that are supposed to thrive in the "academic context...
...given day "more people than Adam Powell. A. Phillip Randolph, Martin Luther King, and Roy Wilkins put together," the white news media largely ignored Malcolm and as a result there is little film footage available on Malcolm's life. The lack of material causes the film to gloss over many of the subtler changes that Malcolm underwent during his life. The five or six stages that Malcolm went through in formulating his final philosophy are boiled down to two or three. But given the constraints under which the filmmakers had to work, they've put together a documentary that...
...High Gloss. As a choreographer, Champion is admirably disciplined. The execution is flawless, but Champion's dance imagination is rigid. He favors locomotive choreography in which the chorus chug-chug-chugs around and occasionally wigwags its outstretched arms semaphore-fashion. This is fine for motion, but scanty of meaning. The dances could be inserted in another musical, where they would mean no more and no less than they do in Sugar...
This is not to say that the big, old-fashioned musical is irrevocably doomed, but it must have a singular mood, manner and meaning all its own. Otherwise, all that remains, as Sugar indicates, is a sterile display of high-gloss techniques. · T.E. Kalem
...message has been applied to Madison Avenue. Improved make-up and stylized lighting have erased his five o'clock shadow and Nixon-speak--Vietnamization, Phase II, incursion, game plan--and alliterative Agnewese ring in the inner ear. But no amount of pancake and greasepaint and well-placed Fresnels could gloss Nixon's profound physical gracelessness. There is a fatal slowness about the man that pervades his surprise announcements on national television with the forced enthusiasm and unsuccessful electricity of Ed Sullivan bringing on Baldy Laird and his Vietnamese Dancing Bear as the headliner of another really big show...