Word: viewings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
PLAY IT AGAIN, SAM. Woody Allen's new comedy seems more a prolonged nightclub routine than a play, but his kooky view of the world and his nimble jokes make for an amusing evening...
...possible rationalization, the Administration helped nudge Abe Fortas off the Supreme Court. Now, because of the casual approach that Attorney General John Mitchell took, Nixon finds himself on the defensive over the Haynsworth nomination. Those who believe that a judge should be above suspicion may be forgiven if they view both men through one lens...
...part of a face, a woman's face. Ah, she is crying. One sees the tears. Two tears. One counts the tears. Two bombing raids... I wonder what it is that the people who run TV think about the war, because they have given us this keyhole view; we have given them the airwaves, and now, at this crucial time, they have given us back this keyhole view...
...gives us Eric Sevaried, that sallow Odin, reading one hundred sensible words as insurance against controversy, never mentioning that Chicago, or the capture of Hill 881 was an unconscionable waste of life. It gives us commercials of flagellating concupiscence so that, after twenty years of them, we begin to view the whole world as a commodity, the uncommitted and benighted as the greatest consumer product. As it crowds more harrowing specials into the week, we turn away with less and less hesitation. It is possible that if Jesus Christ had spoken only on television, Christianity would have died with...
...another objection to this first point. For assuming, even, that the university is a-political, point one comes nowhere near meeting opposition to the war as a moral issue. Will the faculty claim the right to function 'without moral objectives,' a la Werner von Braun? By choosing to view opposition to the war as a strictly "political" issue the faculty simply defines things to make it easier for itself, and fails completely in meeting opposition whose roots are in moral outrage...