Word: trusts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strengths of Brother Can You Spare A Dime? lie in the director's creation of a vivid image of a decade characterized by uncertainty and despair, a decade brightened only by America trust in Roosevelt as a paternal cult figure and by the refreshingly lighthearted fantasies of Hollywood. Disorder and confusion are starkly represented in scenes depicting violent strikes at a Ford Motor Company plant, a Communist rally in New York, a Ku Klux Klan gathering and MacArthur's dispersal of the Bonus Army's Washington gathering in the waning days of the Hoover Administration...
Reith's most corrosive rancor was reserved for Churchill. Stranded in his "useless position" at Transport, Reith seethed while Churchill put together his "rotten" wartime coalition full of "humbugging and sycophantic" ministers. "It is dreadfully difficult to trust in God as I should," he wrote when Churchill took over the War Ministry himself rather than offering it to him. Increasingly frustrated by his view from the sidelines, Reith worked out his rage toward Churchill in a string of scribbled epithets ("cur," "coward," "loathsome cad," "blasted thug") and capped it with a curse: "To hell and torture with Churchill...
This system--placing unlimited discretion in faculty members charged with running the University in a paternalistic manner--might be suited to a close knit academic community founded on trust and understanding. But as the University becomes more impersonal, fairness towards students requires a more open administration and formal procedures for student grievances. As the University community becomes more like the outside world, students should be recognized to have rights, not merely demeaning obligations...
...situation is not that simple, because buried under those glossy designs, impressive energy saving figures and powerful statistics on cheaper kilowatts, is damage that can't be objectified in environmental or trust-busting terms...
...Edison is wrong and if private total energy is one way out of the energy crisis, then, as Harvard officials will tell you, nobody seems to lose, except for the evil power trust...