Word: letting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With Korea and Viet Nam, Wheeler thinks that "the American people are understandably wondering why we have to be involved in other nations' security affairs." The result, Wheeler believes, is that "Americans feel like saying 'Let everyone take care of themselves. We have done it long enough for them.' " Another cause of disquiet, he concedes, is the fact that "Viet Nam has gone on so long" with no clear-cut outcome. "This frustration is why people are hitting out at the nearest hitching post, much as the students strike at the universities when that is really...
...troopers took the reporters upstairs and refused to let them look out the windows...
...this campus and others has forced these men into the open. Many people (and even the Harvard CRIMSON) have clearly seen the Corporation's role as defender of ROTC. But many of us have been prone to take the attitude: "Well, I agree with the argument theoretically; now let's drop this, and discuss something else theoretically." But this approach leads to never seeing that we're involved in a real struggle, and therefore, never fighting...
...raised his voice. I wondered whether he was merely tired after six weeks of shooting. Or whether his low-key approach to a project as emotionally charged as the making of Eleanora was an indication of something else--possibly some hidden turmoil, even some fear, that he could not let erupt...
...like the other four--let no humor find its way into the filming, once the real work had begun. Often, between takes, he reached for the bottle of burbon, took a gulp, gargled with it and then swallowed it down: all without comment from him or anyone else. (The bourbon was cheap and awful; Prophetic Pictures' production budget is $2000 -- most of which goes for minimal salaries and prop rentals--so there is little room for extravagant extra expenses.) While Tommy worked, drank, worked, looked over his script, drank, no one spoke. Eric and Tim might say something about technical...