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...that the only way we can slow or stop this illegal march to a world war is to start impeachment proceedings against the President, in which case we should start without delay. To do so might at least remind him that he is an elected public servant, sworn to uphold the Constitution he daily subverts, and not an anointed Monarch...
...vote came in a non-binding referendum designed to give the Freshman Council an idea of student support for the CRR. Following the tabulation of yesterday's poll-which covered over 45 per cent of the 1200 students in the Class of '74-the Council decided to uphold the results by a vote...
...girl, starts speaking French and Italian. When she complains that she doesn't understand what he's saying, he answers, "It's not real to you, but it's real to me." And it is precisely this that explains Cassavetes' attitude toward his audience. He is so determined to uphold some private conception of the honest artist that he treats his audience with a contempt that becomes itself artificial...
...would wager my tarnished medals that if patriotic loyalty and excellence in technical performance were recompensed with cash on the barrelhead, the recruiting offices would be deluged with clean-shaven, dignified men eager to uphold those traditions that make the military a force to be reckoned with...
...glimpses of the American white community, this is probably inevitable.) When corruptive social forces are embodied as moustache-twirling villains, what is produced is not indignation, but derisive laughter. Similarly, if a black man is victorious even in self-imposed defeat, quiet desperation is glorified. Sackler's decision to uphold the disproven theory that Johnson threw his last title fight under federal pressure is disastrous both dramatically and thematically...