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...best insights came when the recorder was switched off. Says Castro: "Diane is a very private person who sometimes finds it difficult to articulate her feelings. For instance, we had already touched on things like her self-consciousness, her feelings about men. But it wasn't until this jerk in a restaurant tried to pick us up that she really opened up on those subjects. Once she was able to see herself in a humorous light, she could talk about it. You learn a great deal about someone when you laugh together...
...still boisterous, shattering the sudden quiet in the Yard, but outside Weld some late hangers-on continue. Off to one side, a group of Wellesley freshmen waiting for the last bus out exchange giggles about the people they've encountered. "Did you see that guy? He was such a jerk! How come everyone is so insecure here?" one asked...
...North End and South Boston and Dorchester. He seems incapable of patronizing them. Although we see them as ignorant, fearful of change, bigoted, and often violent, their finer qualities--loyalty, pride, a sense of tradition, bravery--are also there. Scorn is reserved for the meddling "goo-goos," the knee-jerk liberals who vanish in crisis, the Brattle Street chic who, safely on the sidelines, their children in private schools, applaud Garrity's ruling. At times, Liberty's Chosen Home is devastating social history: the concerned group of clergymen unable to agree on a joint statement about the crisis over their...
...care about these matters any more, Black Sunday may well make a bundle, thanks to the technical skill with which it manages its long-delayed payoff. But it is getting tiresome to be forced to admire, for want of anything else to do, the skill with which moviemakers jerk audiences around. It is hard to believe three grown-up men could not have written something worthwhile for Frankenheimer to shoot while he was warming up his cameras for his specialty number. Richard Schickel
...seeking answers to the growing violence, TIME in knee-jerk fashion turns to the defunct and discredited psychiatrists. Psychiatrist Ziporyn attributes the growing violence to a "... moving from a time of restraints back to total liberty...