Word: obviously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Power Destroys. The group explained their motives in a letter to U.P.I, delivered last week after they had bombed the three corporation headquarters. The letter called the Viet Nam war "only the most obvious evidence of the way this country's power destroys people." The "giant corporations" are the real culprits. "Spiro Agnew may be a household word," they wrote, "but it [the public] has rarely seen men like David Rockefeller of Chase Manhattan, James Roche of General Motors and Michael Haider of Standard Oil, who run the system behind the scenes...
...with the psychology. When radicals occupy a building, Blaine is saying, they don't do it because they want administration response, as they claim. Their real motive is "to provoke violence" which will set off a chain of events resulting in the destruction of the university. Blaine ignores the obvious fact that building seizures can be effective in winning demands-the elimination of ROTC, for example-which have nothing whatsoever to do with destroying the university...
...question of what to do about this dangerous situation was obvious from the response of Congressmen to Washington march- ignore it. When you are playing hot potato you have to take the ball for a while and then pass it off, but politics gives you the option of simply using a cold turkey, so you don't get burned...
...balance between scheme and characters by acknowledging and mocking the scheme. The meneur d? jen (Anton Walbrook), who opens the film by addressing the audience, keeps returning to change seenes between the ten episodes which compose the film. His appearances as functionaries-headwaiters, coachmen-are at once pleasantly obvious and sparked by unexpected twists which it would be criminal to reveal. Ophuls similarly keeps a sustained irony from overweighting the episodes, by employing a formal inventiveness remarkably responsive to the nuances of each situation. The subtle differences of class, age, and character of each person affords Ophuls sensitivity to social...
...should have been obvious to Yovcisin and his staff as early as the Boston University game that the power sweep, and its variations, were not going to work as consistently as they had to if they were the only series used...