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...hope all of this isn't mawkish, but the point is simply that institutional negligence (under which I would classify the callous transgressions of promoters like Lang or Melvin Belli) does not make good copy or flashy movies. When thirty-eight miners suffocate in a mineshaft which doesn't even meet the government's lax specifications, that "tragedy" is accorded the treatment the press gives to earthquakes and other natural disasters, but New York filmmakers aren't about to fly down to Kentucky or wherever and compose a film around it. Instead it's the front page one day, then...
...older, more conservative standards, the class of '46 has its share of incipient radicals-both political and cultural. Edwin Randall, Jr., one of the two black men in the class, writes "for the minorities, power is the only answer-first political and then economic, legally acquired and wisely used." Melvin Maddocks of the Christian Science Monitor echoes the confusions of the class of '71 when he writes, "I guess I'm not sure Harvard really exists. But then, I had the same problem when I was there." And, Jacob Leed, an English professor at Kent State University, simply writes...
...Melvin Maddocks...
...congressional approval, the ABM program can be modified to fit any possible agreement. Until an accord is reached, the U.S. intends to go ahead with additional ABM sites as well as with the deployment of MIRV, multiwarhead missiles designed to penetrate the Soviet Galosh (ABM) network. Said Defense Secretary Melvin Laird: "It is clear that our strength has made possible the hope for success at SALT...
...worst and most misanthropic of the new films is Melvin van Peebles' Sweet Sweetback's Baadasss Song. A portrait of the Negro as the Great American Penis (the "sweet sweet-back" of the title character). it is a vile piece of ego-tripping by a black filmmaker who hopes (presumably by default) to become the "revolutionary" mass-media force of his people...