Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Foreign Affairs Editor William Bundy, who was Assistant Secretary of State in the Johnson Administration, believes that "we've done far more than [South Viet Nam] could reasonably have expected at every stage of the proceedings." Bundy's predecessor at the State Department, Roger Hilsman, now a professor at Columbia University, found that "the phrase, 'What we owe the Vietnamese is a peace,' strikes home...
None of this means that the film is less cheeky (or less visually sumptuous) than its predecessor. It is merely a modest claim that its director is something more than a nimble comic stylist. He has the good satirist's indispensable quality, moral indignation, and the wit to show it only in bright, bitter, almost subliminal flashes. Perforce less of a surprise than The Three Musketeers, and perhaps a little sketchier in plotting and characterization. The Four Musketeers disappoints only because we know that there is not enough film left in the can to bring D'Artagnan...
About the only thing which can be said for sure about the 1975 Harvard lacrosse team is that it will be markedly different, in appearance at least, from its immediate predecessor. Whether this change will produce an improvement over last spring's 3-6 record is a question which only time can answer...
...hour-long program, the network's new documentary unit has specialized in asking-and finding answers for-some nasty questions. Closeup has asked why the Federal Aviation Administration has been lax in pursuing passenger safety, whether Teamster President Frank Fitzsimmons arranged with the White House to have his predecessor James Hoffa barred from further union activity, why fire-safety standards in the U.S. are not higher, why major coal companies in West Virginia have not paid millions of dollars in government fines for safety violations...
...predecessor, Nathan Pusey, had a lot to say about the role of the university in modern America in a book called The Age of the Scholar, In his essay, "Leadership and the University." Pusey warned of "excessive preoccupation with the ordinary in life and...idolatrous service to economic activity." Probably his best point came at the essay's conclusion...