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...this Washington bureaucrat Hitchcock has created, at whatever cost to the tightness of his film, the figure we know is blindly implementing policies of worldwide domination. To condemn this professional for his complicity requires of an audience the same sort of moral overview, which recognizes the effect of governmental policies on other people, that the man lacks. So far few reviewers and audiences have shown their ability to connect Devereux's schizophrenie shallowness to the political murders he indirectly commits. Whatever powers Hitchcock at seventy may have lost, his view of America's moral illness remains correct...
...been a member of the Tokyo bureau for 20 years, and of Chang, a mere neophyte of nine years with TIME. Iwama specialized in Japan's industrial and business growth while Chang reported on cultural and social patterns. And Far East Correspondent Louis Kraar provided an overview of the Japanese abroad. Says Reingold: "We got excellent cooperation from almost everyone involved. Their punctuality was incredible, at least to me, after having worked in Africa and Latin America. One difficulty is that many Japanese can be too convincingly self-deprecating. They are just too good at telling you how inadequate...
...strenuous lyricism of situations which have been flattened, made hard and spare. His is emotionally involved in these situations, but in their totality, without sympathy for one character's subjective or idealistic experience. By smashing the conventionally naturalistic, the smoothly progressing, he hopes to bring his audience to an overview which has strong tones of irony and fatalism...
Lectures by Edsall, Kafatos, and others will provide an overview for the course. Other topics will be discussed in five or six lectures delivered in the evening and open to the public. For example, Matthew S. Meselson, professor of Biology, is scheduled to speak about chemical and biological warfare (CBW). Meselson reportedly persuaded President Nixon to destroy much of the nation's CBW stockpile...
Thirsites' cynical viewpoint remains consistently the same, and the structure of the play as it evolves becomes more and more an argument for support of his overview. Shakespeare gives the last lines of the play to Pandarus, who refers to the time when he will make out his will...