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...cliches, "One man can make a difference", "If people just cared more about our schools", etc. This movie follows the Ronald Reagan approach to problem-solving: say something vague and positive, then hope the problem goes away. Placing the administrators as heavies also echoes Reaganite attitudes. You can almost hear him saying "Get the administrators off the teacher's backs, and America's schools will be great again." After seeing this film you know that it was made by Beverly Hills residents who send their children to private schools...
...Spartacus Youth League Non-Negotiable Demands Award: to a Quad House candidate. His poster says, in four lines of boldface type, "Make Harvard hear you. Equality for the Quad. Total Divestiture from South Africa. End to sex discrimination on campus...
Improbabilities are losing their news value in Kansas City, where the baseball team so well-to-do for a decade, and so depressed last season, was advertised to be "in transition," and emphatically is. As Brett said, "When you hear transition, you think of rebuilding; when you think of rebuilding, you think of finishing sixth. The Cubs have been rebuilding for 39 years." On July 18, the Royals in fact were in sixth place (40-51), but to the easy encouragement of Manager Dick Howser they won 43 of the next 67 with a crowd of boy pitchers...
...sign on Buchenwald's gate that identifies the death camp as zoological gardens; Operation Paper Clip, the innocuous code name for expediting U.S. citizenship for useful ex-Nazis. We are told that millions of dollars in trucks and equipment were dumped into the sea after victory, and we hear a general say that the $811 it cost to process a displaced person was expensive...
...tourist might be, but he also senses, well beneath the chaotic surface, "a beautifully organized society." Coming from someone else, this perception might seem dopey or romantic. Naipaul's authority, which this book reinforces, makes the judgment inescapable. He not only tells the West what it wants to hear, he is uniquely born, trained and qualified to convey information that everyone needs to know. -By Paul Gray