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Furthermore, according to Quinn, the PRG fears that pending Constitutional Committee decisions "involving large sums of money and having implications for Mather's next 40 years" will do no more than "reflect the wishes of whatever interest group or sub-committee can shout the loudest and make the most extravagant claims...
...life is the victor in the struggle against death, not in the sense of an afterlife in a faraway heaven, but in the certainty that life is eternal, despite death. I was overcome with the joy of this truth, and I wanted to run out on the street and shout it to the New Yorkers plodding homeward in the gray smog from their dull downtown offices, unaware that a sea of beauty, life and love surrounded and sustained them...
Crowd Orchestration. Even if it had been planned, no Brechtian genius could have staged the audience participation better. Before Nixon was 60 seconds into his speech, the platoon of hecklers began to shout: "Tell us about Kent State!" "Right on!" "Make more bombs!" The vast majority of the audience began a counterpoint of loud and sustained applause. Nixon, hearing the radicals, hurried his speech, with half-stops in his monotone. But his lines about "the willingness to listen to somebody without trying to shout him down" summoned up thunderous ovations...
Just One Catch. A few minutes later, Bennie Lightsy entered the module to reason with Escamilla. Lightsy, a meteorologist who headed the T-3 operation, was an old friend. But Escamilla continued to shout and wave his rifle; outside, Richard Scattolini was walking toward the shelter. A few feet from the door, Scattolini heard a rifle shot. He rushed in and found Lightsy lying on the floor with a bullet in his chest. Within half an hour, Lightsy was dead of massive hemorrhages...
What then is so wrong with Street Scenes? Principally, its inability to comprehend. It is openly empathetic with the students, but it gives them no voice except to shout slogans. Its sound track puts down "dinky little secretaries" who will not take a day off to protest the war. It milks easy laughs from those classic villains, the know-nothing cab driver and the harried postman. To be sure, the film eventually recognizes its own faults. "We can't reach the working people," concludes one of the crew. But acknowledging blindness does not grant vision; diagnosis is no cure...