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...paint Schlesinger as unrelievedly difficult is too harsh. His intimates say that to see him cross-legged on the floor, guitar in hand, singing his own self-mocking lyrics, is to know a different person. And there is no doubt about his capacity to analyze and understand the complex issues of energy; he is the match of any expert in the field. It is his ability to lead that is questioned...
...cults issue was thrust into harsh focus by last November's carnage at the Peoples Temple commune in Jonestown, Guyana. The most dramatic moments of the four-hour hearing came from Jackie Speier, a legislative counsel who accompanied the late Congressman Leo Ryan on his fatal visit to the Rev. Jim Jones' headquarters and survived gunshot wounds. Speier stated that there are 10 million cult members in the U.S. and warned: "The most important fact about Jonestown is, it can happen again...
...wrong. There can be no doubt that Schrader has earnestly studied the porno underworld and that he is genuinely appalled by what he found. But tie does not know it in his bones, as he does that other world. The lighting is wild, when it is not harsh, the better to illuminate wasted faces. The dialogue is sometimes tough, sometimes fantastical. People struggle to express their pathetic rationalizations for what they are doing and their equally pathetic dreams of escape. But Schrader never seems to get beyond his own shock; he keeps having Scott get beaten over the head with...
...assimilation into American culture. But Roots 11 does not try to turn blacks into dark-skinned whites. When Haley's forebears enter middle-class professions, and even the Republican Party, they still cling to the litany of African words passed down by Kunta Kinte and keep alive the harsh legacy of slavery. The blacks of Roots 11 are different from whites, and they are proud of that difference...
...helped found the New Criticism, which stressed the study of the poem or story itself, divorced from its historical context. He also continued to write poems, of which his Ode to the Confederate Dead is the most personal and popular. The main theme of much of his highly intellectual, harsh and often violent poetry, he later wrote, was "man suffering from unbelief," and in 1950 he joined the Roman Catholic Church. He had much in common with T.S. Eliot, whom he vastly admired. Eliot once described Tate as a "sage" who "believes in reason rather than enthusiasm," knowing that "many...