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...defendant was finally acquitted, but in a chilling post-mortem he proclaimed his continuing belief that there is no justice for blacks in America. In the first place, Watson said, blacks are not usually represented by lawyers as capable as his was. Secondly, "the officers who brutalized me" should have been penalized. "I should have resisted arrest." He concluded: "I should have killed both of them...
Does your article mean to ignore what most critics still agree was one of the best and most "real" of all war films, In Which We Serve? And what about the simple, heartbreakingly "real" Brief Encounter? Or Fumed Oak? Or Post Mortem? Or one of his earliest-The Vortex, an in tense, psychological drama? And are the serious, sentimental and romantic musicals like Bi tersweet and Conversation Piece to be dismissed as part of the legend which "dashes off pages of decadent dialogue before breakfast...
...more people do not realize where the real blame lies instead of looking for scapegoats and excuses, if more do not condemn this and every war, then this whole mass post-mortem will have been in vain...
Under the sponsorship of Sam Huntington, the Center supported a series of post-mortem seminars on the U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic. The seminar provided a platform for some harsh condemnations of the U.S. action. This was an inevitable result, since that was the way sensible and knowledgeable men judged the U.S. action...
...will ordain the outcome of the race, often going home at night a broken peasant, cursing the fates. In effect, he becomes existential man, laughing at his own rueful destiny. When Mulligan dies, he makes Toperoff promise to bet all his meager savings in one last post-mortem race. It is his horseplayer's fitting, feckless (not to mention luckless) bid for immortality...