Word: opinionated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Maysles said he prefers documentaries because they provide an objective view of any situation, but regrets that "most people do violence to documentaries by injecting opinion into them...
...whole, the answers have been highly unfavorable towards the cults, and highly narrow in outlook. The whole spectrum of U.S. opinion has come down hard on these groups. The traditional establishment correctly perceives them as destabilizing, offering alternative values and lifestyles not easily controlled by the usual middleclass institutions and therefore dangerously unpredictable. In rejecting the acquisitive values of the mainstream the cults reject America. The political left and remnants of the '60s movements also attack the cults with a passion; after all, the cults focus attention on spiritual matters, self-realization, mystical attainment, and divert attention from the ever...
...some objectivity can be applied to the Kennedy era. Young people judging Kennedy today have little ideological or emotional stake in their assessment of him. It is likely that they shall see Kennedy neither as a saint noras a Machiavellian prince. Indeed it is these very extremities of historical opinion which have done Kennedy the greatest disservice...
Still, however, there remain major obstacles to the introduction of a national health insurance scheme. Vested interests spend much energy opposing such proposals -- but possibly more serious is the fact that large areas of public opinion tend to have vague notions about the grave disadvantages of what is generally referred to as "socialized medicine...
...Opinion Page is a regular feature of The Harvard Crimson that presents articles by members of the Harvard community and others. These opinions do not necessarily represent the views of the Crimson staff...