Word: view
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Reynolds spoke about his film "Deliverance," which he asked that anyone who planned to attend last night's talk view before speaking with him, and talked about his varied movie career and his ups and downs in Hollywood...
THAT ARROGANCE is an attractive proposition. It breeds easily in an institution that professes to take The Long View of human affairs, to see The Big Picture it is the heady sense of self-importance that dawns when you realize you are looking way beyond the trivialities of daily life. It lets you forget a part of your humanity--the troublesome part, the conscience--because you are so busy studying economic models and abstract political theories. It patterns itself after the detached arrogance of the scholar, who must look beyond people to ideas, because people are only transients, while ideas...
...rational and reasonable and efficient, and the men and women who run the University have no real choice but to follow them. At least they do not have a choice as long as they imagine themselves parts of a machine, and not its masters. As long as that view holds the institution must come before the people--the evicted tenants, the shunned students, the workers huddled on a picket line--because it is bigger and will live forever...
Backstairs at the White House (Mondays, starting Jan. 29, NBC) is the gaudiest illustration yet of why many TV viewers would rather undergo root-canal work than tune into downtrodden NBC. Intended as a keyhole view of 20th century American Presidents, this nine-hour miniseries quickly proves to be a trivialization of history. In lieu of incisive political drama or even licentious fun, NBC offers a cavalcade of boring anecdotes and a rogues' gallery of often laughable cameo performances. In Backstairs, power is not an aphrodisiac but a soporific...
...suggested a brain too small to place her among previously discovered toolmaking hominids. At first, Johanson and his partner, Timothy White of the University of California at Berkeley, tentatively classified her as Australopithecus africanus, a species discovered in 1924 by South African Anthropologist Raymond Dart. The team changed its view after locating the bones of 13 creatures roughly similar to Lucy in the Afar region, and comparing them with other hominid fossils found in 1975 by the well-known anthropologist Mary Leakey, in Laetolil, Tanzania. Above all, Lucy's unusual dental and cranial features convinced the pair that...