Word: suggestibility
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Except that Kent State, and reactions to it like those of the state jurymen who exonerated the Guard and indicted the students, suggest that the presumption isn't correct. It suggests that comparatively well-off people, even in the United States, are willing to discard the restraints of law when they think the dissent it makes possible threatens them enough. And that suggests that some radicals' rhetoric was right all along, that you can't divide freedom, that as long as this country's rulers are willing to kill black demonstrators or Cambodian peasants they'll necessarily be willing...
...outpouring by the people of Jackson. There were some placards of dissent around the coliseum (HAIL TO THE THIEF. . . A $476,000 ERROR? . . . YOU CAN'T HIDE HERE). And Governor Waller, despite his plea for people to get behind the President and get the country moving, would not suggest Nixon was innocent of the Watergate accusations. "Always errors are made by people trying to do something . . . We live by and believe in a forgiving spirit," he said. Air Force One lifted off the run way, and the Governor took off his coat to cool down. There lingered the faint...
...grateful my own memory is still intact. I'm thankful that I have an opportunity to look back and speak out, to express my views openly, to point out our deficiencies, to suggest how we could organize our society in a more harmonious way. I'm glad that I have a chance to make a few observations which might make it possible for people younger than I to enjoy their lives a bit more than people of my generation have been able to enjoy theirs. Now that I'm back dictating my reminiscences, I should explain that...
...Dunster Wizard of Oz works on the principle that everyone is familiar with the famous movie of the same name and tries to suggest things from the film, not reproduce them. Of course, things are added as well as suggested, or else there'd be no reason not to just set up a screen and show the film on it. There's the enthusiasm and freshness of the cast, for instance, to replace the sometimes frigid tinsel of the movie, and most of all, fresh music. Music director David Garlock, working with half a dozen orchestrators and a fine...
...films to come to this country. Harvey, Truffaut, Bergman and most of the others have no part in the Janus operations any more, but the company still has close ties to Harvey's Harvard-Central-Brattle chain, as the Brattle programming and the periodic Janus festivals at the Square suggest...