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Admittedly, A Private Function does not reveal anything new and different about the English aristocracy. The film is different because it immerses the viewer in the bowels of society so suitably that he does not feel unclean himself. Bennett's low-key attitude keeps the film from rising above the level of an average Monty Python episode, but when compared with lawdry American attempts like wild Life and Arenging Angel, A Private Function almost deserves its royal welcome...
Such sentiments cannot surprise modern Americans who see in their own lifetimes far more evidence of a tame, cooperative society than an open zoo of unclean beasts. For all its apostrophizing of the open road, most of the nation dutifully drives at 55 m.p.h., willingly undergoes searches before boarding planes, humbly douses cigarettes from time to time. Even those who storm against gun control require the collectivism of lobbies to make their individual stands. The term rugged individualism was coined by Herbert Hoover only a decade before the onset of Big Government and of a war where victory depended...
...yards down the road. The leathernecks regularly converse with the miltiamen in an effort to keep relations smooth. One sore point arose over the Marines' use of German shepards trained to sniff out explosives carried by passing cars and their occupants. Dogs, explained the Amal, are considered unclean by Muslims. "We told the militiamen we would use the dogs just to check vehicles," says a Marine officer. "They seemed happy with the compromise...
...what do we do now? We could make existing college presidents rip their clothing and shout, "Unclean, Unclean," to warn innocent bystanders. But that doesn't solve the problem...
...most difficult ethical question facing medicine today is: Are the donors really dead? As a neurosurgeon, I speak for the speechless, the so-called brain dead. When I must make the decision to terminate life support for my patient so that another may live, I feel unclean. I decry the dehumanization of our profession today. We are being asked to place the welfare of the next patient on a recipient list above the best interests of our own patient. The criteria for brain death can be too loosely applied these days, especially if there is a publicity campaign...