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...based on real people or actual events, Midnight Express has boldly transcended the limits of its true-life story to bring forth a larger-than-life refinement. The five-year incarceration of Billy Hayes becomes an inspiring epic of one very ordinary man's struggle to endure and ultimately prevail which are at once unspeakable in their brutality and incomprehensible in their mindlessness. In the hands of Parker and screenwriter Oliver Stone, Billy Hayes is transformed into an Everyman-type hero coping with the erosion of his identity in a nether world of sadism, greed and madness. No emotion goes...
...sign of wavering in its recently created position. Justice, according to one high ranking official, would prefer omnibus reform but could live with a series of bills. The stage is already set for the kind of inter-house legislative battle on procedure in which the omnibus approach might prevail. It will not prevail, however, on its merits, because a genuine debate on merits has been submerged in the claims that the House somehow avoided its duty when it raised questions about the omnibus procedure...
Groups pushing one cause only are growing both in number and political importance. They tend, in a time of fading political parties, to dominate the debate of all problems and often prevail in the resolution. They have become the undertakers for the professional politician's career and the manipulators of legislative bodies. What they cannot achieve by law they are often willing to achieve by defiance. They have, most of them, an aversion to cooperation, conciliation and compromise...
...some dissolution of the no-win ethnic solidarity patterns among Harvard blacks, the attenuation of this behavior has still not gone far enough. Nor will this occur until we have more of those black students who exploit and make use of the vast variety of superior success-patterns that prevail at top-rank white colleges...
...while Engelhard was busy telling American detractors that U.S. corporate involvement could play a constructive role in helping bring South Africa's black majority toward full political participation, his foundation's book, South Africa in the Sixties, was arguing that "in regard to overall direction, white hegemony is to prevail...