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...mind you it's a big but--there's been a lot of collaborative testimony that the latter half of this winter may bring skiers their long-awaited paradise. The U.S. Weather Bureau's six-month forecast, and almost all of the various Almanac's that purport to give accurate weather forecasts have predicted that February and March could degenerate into a series of heavy blizzards--something about the Gulf Stream and polar air masses...
...civil rights if thousands of farmworkers." Such characterizations have a long history in anti-labor rhetoric. It would be well for those who advance such slogans to be forced to reply more on the available data and less on the sort of partial and inaccurate statements they purport to condemn...
...less dramatic imagery, the point is that most critics I know--all too often myself included--simply lose sight of, or lack the perspective to see themselves in relation to, the craft they purport to criticize, and the artists who make that craft come alive. That's not to say that all works succeed as art (or are even intended as art), or that all filmmakers are good artists--but to limit ourselves to making entertaining copy or personal judgments is to do a disservice to art, to the intellect, and to ourselves. It's not that anything is necessarily...
Such explanations, especially the national psychology-type, have a disconcerting way of assuming what they purport to explain. Considering how regularly the government has undermined the rights of radicals for 60 years, the claim that government crime is exceptional seems especially untenable...
Such explanations, especially the national psychology-type, have a disconcerting way of assuming what they purport to explain. Considering how regularly the government has undermined the rights of radicals for 60 years, the claim that government crime is exceptional seems especially untenable...