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...profoundest respect for objects and people, and a deep disrespect for most institutions ("I think the government is a kind of joke really"). He was aghast when he heard of fellow "documentary" photographers rearranging objects or people to suit their own needs. This to him violated the subject's integrity: he felt that the only control the photographer should have--the only way of imposing himself on his subject--was camera angle and distance, and that even these should be used with care. But even these he forsook when in brief intervals he took to the Chicago streets with...
...course he took many years earlier, selflessly and in the interests of the state, is the compromise that his niece rejects. Not once does Hill allow his creon to cross the fine line into the despicable and thus distrub the precarious balance; throughout the play he inspires only the profoundest pity and sympathy in an audience that has came to know all too well the inevitable pathos of his predicament...
Kremen is tremendously pleased with himself throughout Dateline: America for embarking on his journey, which he feels certain will yield forth all the profoundest truths about America. He is like a spy for The New York Times's reading world, whose job is to report back on what real people are like...
...poilus stationed there. German newsreel footage switches from scenes of fresh, blond Wehrmacht soldiers swinging through France in 1940 to captured black French colonial troops, as a Nazi propaganda sound track mockingly quotes Neville Chamberlain: "We and our allies are the guardians of civilization against barbarism." What was your profoundest concern? a voice inquires of a now middle-aged French pharmacist who lived through the Occupation. Instead of Resistance rhetoric, the reply comes back "Eating! Eating...
...prerequisite for the era of negotiation into which he aspires to lead the two superpowers. In a speech at the United Nations to mark its 25th anniversary, the President stressed the necessity for nations to refrain from the all-too-common diplomatic practice of deception and ruse. "The profoundest national interest of our time, for every nation," said the President, "is not immediate gain but the preservation of peace...