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Moreover, the hysterical fears latent in the response to busing were counted on by Wallace's strategists to provide a massive public relations victory in this state, the nation's "most liberal," as the governor stressed over and over...
...those endings too good too spoil. Intellectually it's a trifle slick, a sort of cinematic illustration of the old Rolling Stones lyric about "just as every cop is a criminal and all the sinners saints..." But if Scorsese teases us through the body of the movie with latent violence, he more than compensates for it in the final shootout--a rapid, graphic sequence of knives, bullets and blood, followed by a perversely loving, achingly detailed pan over the scene of the massacre. In this and in the epilogue, Scorsese achieves a near-perfect identification between his hero...
...comment on Daly's assessment that I "failed to bring out many of the latent elements in Chavez's personality" because my "sympathy for Chavez" kept me from asking Chavez "the hard questions." The only reason I can't comment, of course, is because Daly fails to mention what those "latent elements" are, or what the "hard questions" were. I strongly suspect, however, that if Daly made such a list, I could supply him with page references...
Unfortunately, Levy in Autobiography of La Causa has failed to bring out many of the latent elements in Chavez's personality. Levy's sympathy for Chavez and his cause (La Causa) has kept him from either asking Chavez the hard questions that would develop these themes or developing them on his own in a critical perspective...
...Although the opinion mongers like The Crimson are undoubtedly liberal, and even socialist, they convey a distorted picture of the student body. A substantial, latent conservative stratum exists," Kesler said...