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...easily forgotten in quieter times. In the past the press has often been faulted for being too complacent and too easily accommodating to power. Thus, in a sense, Watergate has distorted the true challenges that face the press. When Watergate is behind us, the American press will have a twofold task. It will have to carry out investigative reporting in areas far less obvious than the Watergate abuses. Even more important than investigation will be explanation. A shortcoming of the American press probably graver than any faults displayed during Watergate is the lack of expertise in many fields, a failure...
Solzhenitsyn has spoken out before about his personal disagreement with Soviet officialdom. Never before, though, had he sounded so bitter or linked himself so directly and actively with other Russian dissenters. The reason seems to be twofold. One is that the government has not only surreptitiously threatened Solzhenitsyn's life but has also refused even to let him legally remain with his pregnant wife in Moscow. (He is defying the ban.) The other is that Solzhenitsyn, with a writer's sense of timing and drama, seems to recognize that this is a unique moment of crisis for Russian...
ZEFFIRELLI never quite decides what kind of person his St. Francis should be. As played by Graham Faulkner, he comes close to being a beatific imbecile. But Zeffirelli's own view of him is twofold and confused. With one eye always on the current scene, he marks his man as a rebellious teenager and scatterbrained nature-lover. At other times, he sees Francis as a gentle social critic or potential revolutionary, but because he fails to clarify the conditions against which his crusader is protesting, his message falls-flat. The Pope outrages his decadent court by stooping to kiss...
...discipline was an integral and necessary part of an undergraduate's education. In the same debate Bok questioned the practicality of giving college students a secure and sweeping acquaintance with Western Civilization in four years. In this report he has again shown his readiness to toy with the common twofold definition of a College education...
...tour de force of explicitness. The subject of the building is twofold: art, and what makes art manifest-light...