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...regular schedule of every Olympics would be an occasion for any participating nation to needle or humiliate any other nation. Medals would be presented, as in the athletic events, but in the embarrathon both winners and losers would be asked to mount the platforms so that the world might jeer or smirk as it chose. Or are we getting desperate...
City Lights (United Artists). It is almost a law in publicity-loving Southern California that the two greatest personalities there present shall hobnob while the press & public loudly cheer or jeer. Usually this means William Randolph Hearst and whatever foreign personage happens to be visiting Hollywood. But last week it meant Charles Spencer Chaplin and Albert Einstein. All of Hollywood's police reserves turned out one evening to make tunnels through the populace so that Mr. Chaplin could escort Dr. Einstein and a party of scientists to see the first new Chaplin film in two years...
...task for the Left, then, is not to jeer Falwell, or even, primarily, to combat his lobbyists on Capitol Hill. It is instead to build support among the millions who are searching for an alternative to the dizzying national crisis that has brought school closings, gang rapes, and factory shutdowns to their home towns. Many have already found their answer in Falwell and his friends. But many others sense that his answers are too simple--that socially irresponsible corporations and corrupt politicians, not gays and pointy-headed liberals, are to blame. They need articulate leadership. And that doesn't mean...
...distractions in U.S. halls have increased lately. Disruptive little creatures have been loose-not at political meetings, where hecklers may have more legitimate business, but in university auditoriums. Two months ago in Berkeley, the cradle of the Free Speech Movement in 1964, a group of them managed to jeer U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick from the stage, temporarily. She canceled her lecture scheduled for the next day. The student senate, in a masterpiece of smug non sequitur, sent a letter of regret that observed, "We cannot help but find it somewhat inconsistent that you feel such great concern for your...
...late afternoon, straggling into a place called Sansare, the tired, dust-covered troupe, its ribbons drooping, passes by a local official's house where armed police keep watch. The guards begin to jeer and shout at the passersby: "Why don't you go back into the mountains with the Communists, you traitors...