Word: respectibility
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...characters act only out of the bas est of motives: Dad, for example, gets canned from his p.r. job because of the sudden family disgrace. He then spends much of the film trying to hunt down and kill his own child, as if to win back community respect. Even a score by the usually excellent Bernard Herrman is of little help. Herrman did the music for many of Hitchcock's best films (Vertigo, Psycho). His participation in It's Alive lends it a fleeting and futile air of quality, like a concert virtuoso playing piano in a cathouse...
Goldwin abhors the term intellectual-in-residence and with good reason: the scholars burdened in the past by that cumbersome mantle had frequently found themselves useless window dressing for the White House staff. Lyndon Johnson, for example, had little respect for his resident sage Eric Goldman, commenting on several occasions that the Princeton historian was only around "to please the intellectuals...
...they sign in one day could easily exceed a lifetime of sales made by the "merchants of death" of an earlier era, immortalized in Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw's Undershaft, whose credo was "to give arms to all men who offer an honest price for them, without respect of persons or principles ... to Capitalist and Socialist, to Protestant and Catholic, to burglar and policeman, to black man white man and yellow man, to all sorts and conditions, all nationalities, faiths, all follies, all causes and all crimes." Consider, for instance, only a few of the transactions announced within...
This case illustrated the full impact of the U.S. Supreme Court decision. The lack of respect for human life is not confined to the unborn child but is being extended to the child after separation from its mother, even as it was extended in Japan following legalization of abortion. Nothing short of a return to total respect for human life, born and unborn, will eliminate abuses...
...times. They believe that he was forced out because some important U.S. policymakers no longer hold counterintelligence an indispensable function and so strongly believe in the durability of detente that they are uncomfortable with a clandestine organization that persists in regarding the KGB as a serious threat. In this respect, Angleton's departure is reminiscent of the fate of a fictional counter-intelligence man, George Smiley, the sad hero of John le Carré's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. Fired during a staff shake-up at the British Secret Service, Smiley was later called back to root...