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...their full potential, what has The Crimson offered? A series of virtually personal attacks on a single person who, after the dust of the Crimson accounts has settled, seems to have committed an error of carelessness, not conspiracy, with no tangible harmful effects other than those produced by the shrill invectives of the "reporters." More depressing than the defamation which will make those few professors who actually run review sessions hesitate before continuing the almost extinct practice of answering questions from students has been a loss of your credibility attendant to these "news" articles heavy with innuendo and with...
...shrill rhetoric was not new to America's politics, but the actions that backed it up certainly were. On one coast of the U.S. last week, those chilling words ended the latest communique from the kidnapers of Patricia Hearst, the California publishing heiress who was nearing the end of her third week in the clutches of the violently leftist fringe group that calls itself the Symbionese Liberation Army. On the other side of the nation, in grim ideological counterpoint, a man who identified himself as a "colonel" in a far-right "army" abducted John Reginald (Reg) Murphy, the soft...
...Shrill Opponents. A mild-mannered ear, nose and throat specialist, Hopp, along with his board, was accused by the grand jury of amateurism and weakness in the face of attack by "small, shrill groups of opponents." The report pointedly suggested that "more than mere citizenship be considered as qualification for election to this board...
Idaho Transfer could have been shrill and preachy in its ecological warning, but Fonda keeps it in check. The movie has the spareness of a classroom documentary, which lends it a nice tone of satire but also often undoes it. The cast, with one exception, is nonprofessional, and their uncertainty and clumsiness with lines not only underplays the drama of the script, but sometimes undercuts it altogether. Vacant-eyed, the actors mumble the dialogue as if reading the instructions on a medicine bottle...
...Shrill Campuses. With more passion than logic, other businessmen blame Watergate for the poor business climate. But the shrillest cries for the President's removal come from the campuses. Student demonstrations are lackadaisical by the standards of the late '60s, but petitions are circulating in just about every school in the Midwest, and campus papers are having a field...