Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...left must not only "speak out" but simultaneously play up his outspokenness in speaking out. It must appear that he is risking unpopularity (just a little) with his honest views. Certain Harrington slogans, with their attempts at negative definitions, illustrate this point well: "He's some other kind of politician" or "If you like the way things are going, don't vote for Mike Harrington" or "Mike knows it may not be easy, but let's face...
...least of all Mario ("Will you please stop calling me Mr. Procaccino?"), would dispute the Democratic candidate's credentials to lead the revolt of the average man. He is as common as the machine clubhouse, a journeyman politician who worked hard, if without special distinction, and waited his turn. As he insists on informing people on every street corner, he is "not pretty" ? a useful attribute, he feels, in his war with Lindsay and the Beautiful Peo ple. He wears electric-blue suits and watermelon-pink shirts and in speech and gesture accentuates the ethnic...
...attempting to "pit the poor against the middle class, while he goes about the business of rebuilding Manhattan for the select few." Procaccino is waging the politics of class by the numbers, knowing the white middle outweighs the rest. Manhattan may be New York to the world, but the politician knows that Manhattan contains only 1,600,000 residents out of a total city population of some...
...said that the Salesman-like his generic brothers, the Rainmaker and the Politician- is a particularly American phenomenon. To sell his goods, he must sell us belief in their validity. And since we in America have been ever striving to establish "a more perfect union," since our whole system of government pretends to be based on one great burst of philosophizing in the middle of 1787, and since we have no sense of our past history by which to assess our progress, the Salesman has been most successful when pandering to our dreams and illusions. But, now, he's trying...
...Susan Sontag's prose style is laborious, her film making is absolutely benumbing. Duet for Cannibals, which looks alternately like a third-rate Monogram thriller and a dirty soap opera, has something to do with a young man who gets a job as secretary to a paranoid politician. "He's full of fantasies of persecution and disaster," the lad confides to his mistress, who eventually winds up in bed between the boss and his crazy wife. At film's end, characters die and are reborn again with a facility that suggests that Director Sontag is not without...