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...press is far less ideological. Continues Weaver: "The press can make its contribution to the system only by maintaining close access [to government]- a closer access than can ever be provided by law. The price of such access is some degree of cooperation and sympathy for government-not a slavish adulation, as it is sometimes said, but a decent respect for authority, a willingness to see government and persons in government given the opportunity to do their...
Convinced Marxist. The Spanish war also turned Neruda into a convinced Communist, though political engagement did not always inspire him to great writing: during the 1940s and 1950s, for instance, he produced a series of slavish, gushing poems in praise of Stalin...
...easy task. Now 77, he is reported to be in failing health. Moreover, the old ways of flamboyant despotism obviously will not solve the complex social and political problems of modern Argentina. But el Líder enjoys something that Cámpora did not: the almost slavish faith of a majority of the people. If Perón can mobilize that faith to solve even a few of Argentina's vexing problems, he will have come a long way in erasing the stains that once made him one of South America's most odious dictators...
...hymn to Loeb rediviva. The massive painted backdrop, the portentous music between acts, the stilted acting all stand between this Loeb company and effective communication of Sartre's conception. This does not imply that David Boorstin's production of Dirty Hands misinterprets Sartre; it merely suggests that through slavish efforts at virtuosity within the Old Theatrical canon, these people have denied the goal of effectiveness and missed their audience...
What made it a smash hit, and far more than an expanded honeymooners skit, was the Nichols style: timing, vibrance and a slavish attention to detail. Nichols and failure became antonyms. Barefoot was followed by The Knack, Luv and The Odd Couple. The director came to resemble Somerset Maugham's nouveau novelist, Alroy Kear, who read that genius was an infinite capacity for taking pains. "If that was all, he must have told himself, he could be a genius like the rest...