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...Savior. Jean-Luc Godard considers the film the beginning of his deep political involvement in issues of production and class struggle. Whatever concrete ideas he may hold, however, are lost in the groping opacity of the experimental style that controls the film...
...came, like all other agencies, as the savior agency of Cambridge. They poured workers out on the street who were untrained and had great difficulty mobilizing and working with adults. As soon as they determined the needs of an area, they were never out on the street again. They never addressed themselves to the causes. They said, 'please, don't send the kids away,' but they never addressed themselves to the injustice in the system. They were merely duplicating services: making referrals to Catholic Charities, making referrals to the welfare office...
Pompidou's choice of ombudsman has been greeted with hostility and hilarity. Out of retirement came 81-year-old former Premier Antoine Pinay, a cautious conservative who is remembered chiefly as the "savior of the franc" while serving as De Gaulle's Finance Minister. Critics charge that Pinay's appointment is purely political; he is honorary president of the Républicains Indépendants, the Gaullists' chief allies in government. "We would have taken him more seriously," remarked the satirical magazine Le Canard Enchaine, "if he had been five or six years older." Noting that...
...have accepted Jesus as my Savior now," Baker said just before he was immersed by Wiegand...
...hearings in denounce the present cable system. The more radical among them, such as Students Against Facism, opposed cable systems in any form, contending that they would eventually be used for police surveillance via two-way TV. The other group of UTOPIANISTS saw the cable as the coming savior of society. People like Ralph Lee Smith, author of The Wired Nation, believe that the technology of the cable can be exploited to allow people to have (for instance) the resources of Widener Library available at the touch of a button or to have any number of plays or movies piped...