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According to JD Paul, a Leverett resident tutor in physics, Georgi is respected dent tutor in physics, Georgi is respected forhis academic and professional work...
...JD: It wasn't. I think at any one moment as an argument goes on you're saying, "Oh God, that's a great point that he makes!" and then that "that's a great point that he makes!," and at any one moment you're seeing things differently...
...JD: Kristol makes the point that a lot of liberals still hold onto Great Society ideas about social change, that if we just add this program or that program things are going to get better. That view of Kristol's forced me to rethink my own liberalism. That's what I think a person of the left gains from reading a conservative carefully; I mean if you read Robert Nozick, a Harvard professor, I think he's a Libertarian or at least a man of the right--to read someone like that or to talk to [William F.] Buckley...
...JD: I feel like what distinguished the group was an interest in the real world. As intellectuals, what really distinguishes them is that they really wanted to do things relevant to real world situations--they weren't arguing fine points of arcana. My feeling is that intellectual argument is an inherently interesting thing, not only an important thing; there's drama there. People in New York have said to me that we were selling out crowds around the block, and people were surprised. People said this is a political film, that political films do not draw well...
...JD: Two things [that] you always think: you always think when you're making it that if you make it right, people will come; and I think that you've got to go into something like this with that inner confidence that people are going to come. On the other hand, I really was surprised, and it was enormously gratifying to the filmmaker to think that you had something that you wanted to see on film, and to think that's why you do it, because it's dear to your own hearts...