Word: takings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...best when retelling familiar events. From the bus boycott through the Atlanta sitins, from the jailing in Birmingham to the assassination in Memphis, Mrs. King succeeds not merely by adding intimate touches but by providing a personal context within which the events of King's public life take on a deepened drama. "If anybody had told me a couple of years ago that I would be in this position," King once explained to Coretta, "I would have avoided it with all my strength. But gradually you take some responsibility, then a little more, until finally...
Nevertheless, the success of the Cuban effort is far from certain. Cuba is short of trained managers, and in some factories has relied on worker self-supervision. In many of these factories worker productivity has been falling. "Once you take the bosses off people's backs." says one Harvard economist just returned from Cuba. "you don't have people doing the onerous tasks they have to do." And while there is little doubt that masses of students and intellectuals have been doing volunteer work in the cane fields, few observers can tell whether they are there because they want...
...case the word hasn't reached you yet, this film (now at the Paris Cinema) is the story of what happens when a bunch of black militants take over an ad agency. But the film isn't really about advertising or blacks. Putney Swope is rather a monument to chaos, a plea for insanity, an adversisement for anarchy...
...were to steal from any filmmaker, Downey would take from Preston Sturges, the American director whose Sullivan's Travels and Hail, the Conquering Hero are full of the kind of zaniness that abounds in Swope . Other favorite movies of Downey's are Varda's Le Bouheur, Losey's Servant, Titicut Follies, Citizen Kane, the Marx Brothers/Sam Wood's Night at the Opera, Kazan's On the Waterfront, Teshigahara's Woman in the Dunes, and Truffaut's Jules...
...Asking for the informal convocation, Dorfman said, "My understanding is that Faculty members are virtually unanimous in opposition to the war. We are anxiously looking for a way to oppose the war,but I don't think we should take an official stand...