Word: ued
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...particularly offensive scene occurs toward the close of the movie. The New York Cinetracts Collective (comprised mainly of a group from N. Y. U.) has completed the job of making the documentary, and it has assembled in a Washington, D. C. hotel room to discuss ( a la Godard and a la God knows who else) the ethics of having made a movie instead of responding to the crisis with political action. As they speak, and as the film's audience squirms in unbearable embarrassment, the moviemakers proceed to be mind-bogglingly male chauvinistic, grossly misguided about aesthetics, and ultimately personally...
Despite the imposing cast of characters, there is little likelihood of major diplomatic breakthroughs. That would be consistent with the U.N.'s record of the past 25 years-few big successes, some small ones and many disappointments. As Secretary-General U. Thant said last week: "There are times when I believe that the U.N. has not been faring so badly; that we have had an uneasy peace during the last 25 years, and that we have at least avoided an atomic conflagration; that nearly a billion people have gained their independence, without the bloodshed and struggles which other nations...
...contrived a remarkably deft version of a peculiarly masculine genre. Downs Park is a prep school-a staging area from which very little boys can go on to the public schools. Perhaps predictably, the school's most gifted master turns out to be a thoughtful, non-U escapee from a technical college. Yet academic cliches and characters alike flash into brief, tantalizing existence, in part because the author talks about them in a tone of voice which hovers suggestively between satiric irony and compassion...
...officials last month denied these charges, pointing out that their advisors have often counselled foreign governments against disadvantageous trade agreements with the U. S. They said that corporate representatives had once asked the American Embassy in Liberia to try to curtail DAS activity there...
Unlike the U. S. Senate-which had given the caucuses a two-party model-the caucuses had no "party discipline." Caucus leaders could not level political clouts on members to bring them into line. Patronage at Harvard is minimal. Presidential pressure would be an indignity. And what Harvard has of a seniority system is organized through academic departments...