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...progress from liberalism to violence may be intended as a paradigm of contemporary student politics, but Director Paul Williams is equally interested in the human impulses that shape history. A is certainly no hero, and as a political figure he possesses about as much charisma as the neighborhood poll watcher. His gimpy right leg cripples him physically, and his academic training-plus a lower-middle-class upbringing-tends to paralyze him politically. Unfortunately, The Revolutionary sometimes suffers from the same lingering paralysis. The crucial climactic scene ends with a frame-freeze as A confronts the judge: Will he throw...
Detroit is a city of black crime and white fear-a paradigm of the urban tragedy in America. Blacks, who make up almost 40% of the population, commit 85% of all reported crimes, which jumped 14% last year. Almost every white claims to know someone who has been mugged or robbed by young black thugs; karate and gun clubs thrive in the white suburbs. White commuters call the city "Indian country," never argue with black motorists and avoid walking downtown except in broad daylight. During the Christmas shopping season, police loudspeakers warned: "Walk in twos after dark, keep your hands...
...remarkable disingenuousness of Bennett's actions became clear only last week. The Federal government has been making its own studies of Middle South, and its findings have been less rosy than Bennett's. The figures that Federal investigators collected on Mississippi P and L form a paradigm of discriminatory hiring patterns in the South. Operating in a region where the population is 35 to 50 per cent black. Mississippi P and L's own cosmos is only 4.5 per cent black-with nearly all of those filling traditional roles as janitors or unskilled workers. Preliminary reports on other Middle South...
...Puritan heart, she also has the kind of forthright Puritan mind that in early America could probably have reconciled Scripture with slaving and rum-running. On-screen she may be the ultimate prehistoric predator, but in real life she is a carefully pre-fabricated commodity, a paradigm of the harddriving, self-made New Woman who just happened to choose acting as a career. "I'll admit I'm extremely strong-minded," says Raquel. "I don't know any other...
...psychoanalyst says that we are destined to heterosexual union, and anything that deviates from this must by definition be sick. This is nonsense even in animal terms. Animal communities can tolerate quite a lot of homosexual relationships. The beautiful paradigm of this is geese. Two male geese can form a bond that is exactly like the bond between males and females. They function as a male-female pair; and geese, as far as I can see, are a very successful species...