Word: straightforwardness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...advance notice of the show, although CBS staged a press screening and delivered broadcast transcripts to major New York City news outlets. The New York Times, which 60 Minutes had singled out as the paper most responsible for publicizing Herbert's side of the story, did carry a straightforward account of the program...
HUGHES WASN'T A LITERARY MAN, and he lacked the Victorian preoccupation with searching that better writers possessed. But his almost innocent and completely straightforward pride in things like the British Empire is very revealing of one part of the Victorian attitude. And the book's final and complete commitment to the combination of gentlemanly Christianity as a mirror for rulers--even on a level meant for a nine year-old--is a far cry from much that this century, including the BBC's Tom Brown's School Days is quite willing to represent...
...OTHER FIGURE shows a similar development, and character transformation under the impact of events is not really the major concern of the play. Rather archetypes respond to crisis in a straightforward fashion. Caroline Downey, as the mayor's wife, Anna Andreevna, and Lee Cork as his daughter, Maria Antonovna, act in conventional, highly stylized and artificial unison, play off of each other very nicely, and are a high point in the evening. Yet, they are static, and in the end differ in no particular way from their status at the beginning. Similarly, the mayor, portrayed by Wayne Mitchell, remains unchanged...
Even thornier than the problems of collection in any system of public financing are those of distribution. For those seeking federal office in a general election, more or less straightforward solutions can be found. More difficult is financing primary campaigns, in which a candidate's costs may exceed those in the final election and a challenger is at a heavy disadvantage vis � vis the incumbent. What about nonfederal contests? Perhaps each government unit?state, county, municipality?should budget and fund its periodic renewal of executives and representatives...
...Sense of Loss starts out as a straightforward documentary appraisal of the situation in Northern Ireland. Marcel Ophuls' monumental previous film. The Sorrow and the Pity, (TIME, March 27), brought shape and great emotional resonance to the memories of citizens of Clermont-Ferrand during its occupation by the Germans in World War II. A Sense of Loss shows the same extraordinary compassion for people, the same rare gift for making political history real in immediate human terms. The dilemmas of occupied France emerge more clearly after nearly 30 years than do the problems of a divided Ireland, which still...