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...creatures." He promises to "provide what force is necessary" to keep peace on the campuses. Financially strapped, Unruh has been unable to buy a single television commercial, generates free time for himself by leading cameramen to "news confrontations" on the lawns of wealthy Reagan backers. Painting Reagan as the servant of vested California interests, accusing him of profiteering to the tune of $1,000,000 in a private real estate transaction, Unruh of late has been making waves, none of them powerful enough to engulf the popular Governor...
...heart, clearly, is in the right place. The problem lies in the clearness of his head. The power of the state does often seem largely beyond simple human control. Technology, indeed, can be more of a straitjacket than a servant to man. It is unarguably true that the law is often not only inhumane but serves as the implacable friend of wrongdoing. Reich makes these points, but in language so maddeningly overstated, so gratuitously contradictory, so alternately abusive and effusive that it would hardly do for a pot-scented post-midnight colloquy in a college dormitory...
Steeped in 19th century tradition, the story could not but end sadly, with the girl dead, the boy suddenly grown older and wiser. Even the wild poet becomes a domesticated civil servant. Turgenev published First Love in 1860, when peasant restiveness was a background rumble. It is to Schell's credit that the scenario has been propelled forward 55 years-to the eve of the October Revolution-without losing its balance. Only in the choice of background music does the director lose track of the score, alternating from Chopin to a muted rock. Turgenev needs no varnish of "relevance...
Antonio Como (José Luis López Vásquez) is a once powerful industrialist reduced by an automobile accident to a virtual vegetable in his own garden. His incapacity is pitifully childlike: to entice him to drink his daily milkshake, a servant must first bare her breast. But his mind still functions with chaotic clarity as he fantasizes the possible consequences of his helplessness. He sees himself in his wheelchair careening wildly across the quiet greensward and into the swimming pool; mailed lancers from the picture that covers his office wall safe appear before...
Including a recently approved 6% across-the-board raise, the pay of the typical white-collar civil servant has been increased by about 55% in the past decade. To halt what had been an exodus of managers and key technicians from Government, salaries for the so-called supergrades, GS-16 to GS-18, have been raised as much as 80%. A GS-18 employee, typically a division chief in a department, earned $18,500 in 1960; today the pay is $35,505. Many private employers consider the top rates to be outrageously high. They complain that they cannot afford...