Word: moment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nevertheless, Saltonstall ended up fighting Harrington on the latter's terms-the national issues. Pressed hard for this level of debate, "Salty" more and more identified with the Nixon Administration. On Vietnam or ABM or tax policy, he found himself weakly deferring to whatever Nixon was saying at the moment. He failed to develop a coherent counterattack, even with a crude theme like "law-and-order." His attempt to avoid debate gave Harrington one more issue to exploit...
Afternoons feature "Seminar," which offers the audience a good deal of light humor while the player-participants act out essays on "my most embarrassing moment...
Before long. Crimson runners returned from their warmup and started doing exercises. I was really psyched. I ran around with my instamatic, snapping artsy-craftsy pictures of jocks as the big moment approached. After Penn returned to the starting area. I found out who Julio was and started taking shots of Tupenny and Julio, standing together in the field. "Colburn is going to psyche them out." It was Mr. Fair, looking Irish, looking vindictive. I think he was pretty mad that Penn all of a sudden thought it could give Harvard's cross-country team some trouble...
...come finally to the moral questions now in debate. At the moment, everyone at Harvard is concerned and worried in some way about the political course that Harvard. All take; whether we go to the right or to the left or hold to a course that will insure the preservation of a liberal definition of academic freedom; and a definition that says we should live by tolerance, and every man should have his say and should enjoy free access to all ideas and enjoy free movement. The debate over political questions is of very secondary interest...
Like the beats, Baillie has a distrust of formalized structures, his movies growing gradually from images shot and edited in spurts, "discovering the film as it takes shape." Above all he is concerned with the apotheosis of the moment, the texture and line of things seen and felt, and the result is a body of work that is palpably bright...