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York is violent on violence. He thoroughly sympathizes with the uproar in the press about violence in contemporary cinema. Even the more sadistic scenes in "Cabaret" were hard for him to stomach, but they were excused for the sake of historical authenticity. He doesn't let a director like Peckinpah off so easily. "My God, a line has to be drawn somehow. There are ways and ways of showing man as a violent animal. I was appalled watching Peckinpah's 'Straw Dogs." An attitude like that is bloodthirsty: it's dangerous and corrosive for people to watch these things...
...York City becoming a state: "We'd starve to death, for Christ's sake. You must be joking...
...Easy humanism, then, lies in the belief that these individual problems can be ignored for the sake of larger panaceas...
...They said that the professors get very upset when they have to walk a long way from their cars to the buildings," Kaufman said. "They (professors) don't read what they publish. They are unwilling to discipline themselves for the sake of the community...
...said Rustin. "I served three years in federal prison in 1943 because as a Quaker I refused to serve in the Army. I find it quite ironic that a man who has preached nonviolence all his life should be charged for such a thing, and for God's sake I didn't know that the cane-part of a collection of over 100-had a knife concealed...