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...People, a terrorist group which has successfully demanded food, clothing, and medical equipment in ransom for kidnaped corporation executives. The set of SLA demands to Randolph Hearst involved no payments to the SLA. The Army's platform declares the SLA's opposition to "all forms of racism, sexism, age-ism, captalism, fascism, individualism, possessiveness, and competitiveness...
Kleppe blasted back that the Congressmen were indulging in "McCarthy-ism," and he can indeed point to some real accomplishments by the agency. Under his tenure, the SBA has encouraged local lenders to make high-risk loans backed by a 90% federal guarantee; four times as many such loans were made during the last fiscal year as in 1972. Most have been worthy and highly visible loans to grateful small businessmen who constitute no minor political constituency. Mindful of such factors, the House subcommittee last week decided after all to recommend that the agency's funding authority be expanded...
...that's the high point, the one recognizably genuine Truffaut-ism in the whole thing. As for the rest, it is hard to decide whether the director is losing or finding himself in his efforts at self-consciousness. With all its removes and ironies, Day for Night seems the work of a man who is trying to run away from himself in order to see himself more clearly. The cineaste contemplates the director...
...reaction at Miles to the deaths of two Southern Louisiana University students protesting "Uncle Tom-ism" in the SLU administration illustrates Monro's point. In contrast to most large universities, there was no organized expression of outrage at Miles "for the same reason that black studies is not one of our largest majors," Monro says. "Here the point was already made--by the mere fact that Miles exists. Here the black student is 100 per cent; he's it. There was sorrow, pain and concern, but there was no felt need to strike out--you were supported and you knew...
...Jews who have experienced real oppression or deep religious joy, Gold's self-centered expressions of fulfillment will seem like romanticized existential ism. In middle age, Gold has really very little to say, except to keep some of his old fans up to date. To be fair, he admits to the modesty of his renewal. If only some of his overblown prose on the subject didn't lead the reader to think Otherwise...