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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...open to the charge that he cares more about the illusion of action than about substantive change. Without any cooperation from Hanoi, it is difficult to see what else Nixon can do, short of a precipitate withdrawal from Viet Nam. Among the most frequent suggestions from war critics: give less solid U.S. support to the present Saigon regime, grant more political concessions to the North, perhaps including the acceptance of a coalition regime in South Viet Nam. Admittedly, such moves would be risky. But even the present cautious program of withdrawals might be carried out less hesitantly and confusingly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: VIET NAM: TRYING TO BUY TIME | 9/26/1969 | See Source »

...national mythology, that the leader of the most powerful country on earth must hold the world's most onerous and agonizing job. Knowing how hard the President is working not only reassures Americans, it inspires some in a small way to carry on their own more or less demanding tasks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: The Bearable Burden | 9/26/1969 | See Source »

...they keep. When Stanley Kauffman seizes on The Graduate as one of the most significant films ever made, you know something is amiss. Similarly when the press does chorus kicks for James Simon Kunen. Or when Pauline Kael hails Wild in the Streets. Scorecards or who likes what are less important when dealing with art works with little contemporary social content. Time thinks Persona is a masterpiece, but doesn't know why and it doesn't matter. But when film is discussed as the pleading voice of vouch (or as sociology) the lines are clearly drawn. There are some statements...

Author: By Joel Haycock, | Title: The Moviegoer Easy Rider at the Charles Street Cinema | 9/24/1969 | See Source »

...seems to be having much trouble embracing Easy Rider. Rex Reed, no less, thinks Easy Rider "is a bold, courageous statement of life seldom matched in motion pictures." The current WBCN ad (BCN moves closer and closer to Krackerjacks every day) for Easy Rider starts with quotes from Life and moves on to include forty other crates who feel that Rider is the film you can't afford to miss. This review is dedicated to all those who expected a shuck...

Author: By Joel Haycock, | Title: The Moviegoer Easy Rider at the Charles Street Cinema | 9/24/1969 | See Source »

...same degree as in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. However, our impression is that the greater commitment of the students, the smaller size of the full-time faculty, and constructive measures already taken by many of the schools have made the problems of most of them considerably less acute, although there are significant variations...

Author: By P. ), The City, and (wilson Committee, S | Title: The Overseers Look at Harvard | 9/22/1969 | See Source »

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