Word: guilts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tremont St. it is getting colder. Harry Lyme offers you a drag. As you take one you wonder, college-kid-guilt seeping through you cold as rain, how much you can spare from your wallet. Oh God! You can't really...Coop bill, phone bill, that record you promised your roommate, boyfriend's birth-day present--oh well, you console yourself, it would only hurt his pride to be offered money...
...situation similar to the one which 20 years ago grew into one of the greatest calamities this country has ever experienced. Zagoria's argument that South Korea is not the same country as Vietnam and that the government should not withdraw its military support through the "residue of guilt and fear left over from Vietnam" is well taken, but there is a radically different conclusion to be drawn from those lessons the government had to so stupidly learn from Vietnam...
...amalgam of research, bureaucratic fatigue and hostility are brilliantly rendered. Power struggles become palpable: Smiley's conversations brim with silences and ambiguities; throwaway lines can hang a man, and one quiet meeting results in a British victory over some brash "cousins" in the CIA. Cruelty abounds, but so does guilt. Smiley believes implicitly in the need for clandestine agents, but he knows that his scholarly gains will soon be absorbed by his dreaded allies?the Americans...
Writer Robert E. Thompson has studded his script with references to most of the conventional Kennedy assassination theories. While he eventually arrives at a verdict on Oswald's guilt (which ABC is keeping secret until air time), so confusing and arbitrary are his data that the verdict might as well be drawn out of a hat. All this Trial really proves is just how effectively television can trivialize even one of the most surefire historical dramas of our time.-Frank Rich
...came here so I wouldn't have the burden of a scholarship hanging over my head," he said. "That way if I quit there was no guilt because there was no pressure to begin with...