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...shocking that the chief intelligence officer of the U.S. Government seems to know less about this affair than the average American who reads the daily press," declared Democratic Congressman Stephen Solarz of New York. Contended Connecticut Democrat Samuel Gejdenson: "If Casey really knows as little as he tried to portray, he ought to be fired for incompetence. And if he knew more, he ought to be fired because the President instructed his people to be forthcoming." Casey had replied "I don't know" to so many questions that the answer began drawing laughter from some committee members. Said Pennsylvania Democrat...
...same is true of advertising. If protest is mounted, advertisers will recognize that it is not good business to portray women in a degrading fashion. With a little luck, they may start to develop attitudes that would prevent them from doing so in the first place...
...rest of the cast, a dauntless ensemble, portray for the most part the unfortunates of the future who suffer Lantry's murderous libido. They also suffer Bradbury's murderous writing, having to deliver such lines as "Law? The terms you are using no longer exist." Several improvised scenes, particularly a discussion about the digestibility of spaghetti, are genuinely funny; others miss the mark. On the whole, though, the comic breaks serve as welcome oases in a sea of burdensome sci-fi philosophizing...
Every so often these "language purists" warn us all of the impending danger of linguistic laxity and the proliferation of sub-standard forms into everyday speech. Much as Gerber wants to portray his desire for linguistic homogeneity and restrictiveness as consonant with the historic American values of equality and pluralism, it is in reality a poorly disguised call for institutionalized elitism. What the majority of the public is speaking is only "sub-standard" and "slang" because the author has chosen to call it that, and likewise the standardness of the speech of the privileged is purely arbitary...
...also difficult, he says, to dig too far beneath the surface while writing for a daily paper. "The general American public is probably not as informed as it might be because the press--and I'm as guilty of this as anyone--tends to portray the highlights of the military and political conflict. When you're a reporter in Israel you're running constantly trying to keep up with events...