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...recent student radicalism is seen by Lipset as an attack on the very academic freedom that provided the source for the liveliness of intellectual thought and political activity at Harvard. Since the middle of the nineteenth century, Harvard had fostered an "academic culture" that promoted scholarship for scholarship's sake, intellectual research relatively free of social constraint, and a solemn respect for creative academic thought. Because of its commitment to this ideal (and to a lesser extent, according to Lipset's analysis, because of its access to influence and financial resources), Harvard came to be though of as something...
...always so, the Academy Awards are their biggest ad. When I was out at the Oscars a year ago, Jack Haley, who was producing the awards show made it clear: "Look it, we have two hours of television time for which we're getting paid for Christ's sake, and 75% of the country is watching. By next week a half-billion people will have seen the show. A half-billion people buddy! You can't buy publicity like that!" It's dollars, baby, dollars. Movies fought off television in the fifties (Norma Shearer refused to buy one, none...
...neons and visual tricks that experimental filmmakers have been using for years. Soon we watch Tommy tortured by one sadistic relative, then abused by another sex-crazed next of kin. Some of these scenes are stylized (there's no spoken script in the film), but not for distance's sake. Russell continues to shoot close and uncomfortable: bad-breath cinema verite...
...gradual rebuilding of a national consensus and perhaps the rediscovery of economic growth. This is not easy to ask at a time of domestic recession and at the moment when so many other countries suspect any American motive. But it must be done, for America's own sake and that of others. In the past, the U.S. has committed sins of pride by believing that it can export its political and economic system and its culture to almost any country in the world and be thanked for it. America has learned better. Still, the U.S. cannot be truly itself...
Calling the all-Kentucky final Monday night has me schizoid, divided in allegiances and generally torn asunder (I hail from Louisville, but grew up a UK fan). I rounded up all the local soothsayers I could find on the subject, if only for objectivity's sake, and they produced these predictions...