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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...which I sought in my questioning. The Marxist approach stresses social conflict, the primacy of economic life and the role of the common man in the workings of society and in social change. What in American society and in the social position of American intellectuals can account for the short shrift which such an immensely valuable approach has received, especially in recent decades, from American thinkers? It does not follow automatically, at least to my mind, that the absence or weakness of the Marxist intellectual tradition in America means that the tradition and the questions it asks are without relevance...
Parrot finished his hockey career as the third highest scorer in Harvard history. This year, he fell one point short of taking his third Harvard season scoring title...
Small and intriguing tales like these surround the geneses of most of America's great films: think of all those people who told Selznick that Gone With The Wind would never sell. Unfortunately, The African Queen falls far short of greatness, selling short its colorful background, despite the efforts of its talented creators (add to the list a fine short story writer, John Collier, whose contribution to the script equalled that of Huston and Agee, and photographer Jack Cardiff, then Carol Reed's right-hand man and cameraman on Hitchcock's magnificent Under Capricorn...
Author Tarsis is no more interested in the guests than Lipyan is. To the manager, the healthy ones are suckers who madly and drunkenly throw away their savings. The really sick cannot be cured in so short a stay...
...Kennedy appeal is not to be underrated, but its Eastern glamor and youthfulness are ultimately obstacles as well as assets, particularly in arguing a politically fragile issue like Vietnam, fraught as it is with sinister links to beards, long hair, drugs and agents of foreign powers. In short, Kennedy's floor is high but his ceiling...