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Richard Morant, as Gerald Flashman, is an ideal smirking cruel dandy, and Iain Cuthbertson, as the headmaster Doctor Arnold, presents an acceptable outward resemblance to the pious Victorian reformer. But in attempting to portray Arnold at all on television, problems arise that Hughes never faced in his novel. On a TV screen there is no way to show the headmaster as he appeared to a 12-year-old boy. So taking refuge in a stereotype is pardonable, even if the stereotype is something of a distortion...
...solid, soul-satisfying, black-on-white print and go to it. To our dismay, we find that our initial endeavors are not what we hoped them to be. Our bricks are laid slightly askew, or our words do not seem to express just what we had intended them to portray. So-o-o, we call in an experienced mason, who, by applying a T-square, straightens up our building, or on the other hand we refer to our night editor, who, by using know-how, shifts our words around until our original ideas suddenly blaze forth clearly and distinctly...
...anti-war movement is over to broaden its perspective so as to be able to attack the entire structure of American policy in the Third World--the structure that may well lead us into new Vietnams before long--then the movement must at some time have the courage to portray the situation in the world as it is, and to argue that October 15, 1969 Third World peoples who are fighting for the control of their own destinies are right and should be supported. And it may be a long while before so clear an opportunity for the anti...
...Congress. Fenno claims that most people "love their Congressmen, but not Congress." It is easy to like a legislator for his personal style and policy views, Fenno notes, but difficult to admire a Congress because it is expected to solve national problems-and it rarely can. Moreover, many Congressmen "portray themselves as the gallant fighters against the manifest evils of Congress; they run for Congress by running against Congress." As Congress thus loses prestige, its effectiveness can decline in a self-perpetuating spiral of criticism...
First, we think that Ebert owes the community a full report of his activities for Squibb since 1969. Some of his consulting tasks will doubtless portray him in a far better light than have the Mysteclin-F hearings, for he is widely known as a man with progressive views on medical issues. We also believe that Ebert ought to be less modest and disclose the amount of the retainer he has been receiving from Squibb...