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...kidnaping and murder are ever political imperatives−and State of Siege says they are the direct, perhaps inevitable results of oppression−then this man Santore, excellently portrayed by Montand as smug, calculating, amoral and dangerous, deserves his fate. The movie ends a little too tidily, with a new AID official being greeted at the airport and the sense of a tide nearly too strong to stem. But in the expression of someone in the crowd−probably a member of the radical group−watching the AID man disembark, we are also shown continued defiance. And rage...
...third of its revenues. The keystone of this division is Luria Bros. & Co., the world's largest scrap-metal firm. Ablon, a onetime business instructor at Ohio State who came to Ogden from Luria in 1962, is satisfied with the conglomerate's progress but far from smug about it. Having got Ogden moving again, Ablon dryly remarks: "The most positive thing we can do now is not to blow...
...COURSE of last week's strike by the Graduate Student and Teaching Fellow Union, there were plenty of smug comments about why it would be unsuccessful and why it was an improperly drastic action to take against Harvard. The legitimacy of striking against the University--especially on mere financial grievances--was questioned. Actually, in view of the circumstances, the action was entirely appropriate...
...fact, her size and sex has helped her gain the edge on smug employers and administrators. When I first saw Lisa in action, she was explaining to the Harvard dean of Freshmen, F. Skiddy von Stade, '37,--twice her size--why a group of striking hospital workers had disrupted a class at the Graduate School of Design. The Dean was no match for Lisa's calm and intelligent reasoning. "I have no qualms about disrupting your University's classes, it is clear to me that the dispute at the hospital is as important to the education of your students...
...several structural innovations in musical theater. One of these cleverly incorporates musical theater's most traditional element--the stock character. Alf and Charlie, two seedy English music hall singers and the only non-historical characters in the play, appear immediately after the overture and return periodically to personify the smug complacent attitude of Parliament and most of 19th century England toward the women's demands. Through the motif of 19th century music hall songs, they provide a constant mocking commentary on the women's efforts. Their theme song is a snide routine entitled, "A Woman's Place...