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...week as a $1.95 paperback titled Who Runs Congress (Bantam Books), bears a distressing resemblance in its tone and quality of research to Phillips' tirade. The tract revels in recounting every instance of bribery, influence peddling and even criminality in the congressional history books, but it is neither explicit nor persuasive in presenting its view of the problems that short-circuit congressional progress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Nader's Bird Watchers | 10/16/1972 | See Source »

...hardly denying his right to make social statements. But like Godard, he forgets or ignores the fact that in art as implicit social criticism is far more effective than explicit didacticism. Thin of Rules of the Game. Unlike Tanner, Jean Renoir understand that the best way to show how society maltreats people was through the struggles of his characters to define themselves while playing their game. In the Renoir film we are dealing with people who are truly caught between expediency and integrity...

Author: By David R. Caploe, | Title: The Poverty of (Film) Philosophy | 10/12/1972 | See Source »

Johnson played a variety of solos in addition to the accompanied pieces. The Pachelbel Chaconne in F Minor was a conservative piece whose execution was marred only by some intolerable upper registrations. The most explicit demonstration of the Frobenius's various sounds was in a set of sixteenth-century dances published by Phalese. These sounded contrived in their flagrant, often unmusical exploitation of every available stop...

Author: By Kenneth Hoffman, | Title: Baroque Organ Dedication | 10/11/1972 | See Source »

...with the agonizing Taiwan issue by saying simply that Japan "understands and respects" Peking's claim to the island; known as the Dutch formula, that position went further than the Nixon-Chou communique (the U.S. merely "recognized" Peking's claim), but it still stopped short of an explicit repudiation of the Nationalist government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ASIA: A Dialogue Resumed | 10/9/1972 | See Source »

...been terrifying. In a novel like Ulysses, the most incidental details were somehow necessary. Instead of trying to compete on these terms, the novelists of the sixties rejected such lofty ambitions and produced fiction where everything was superfluous, nothing necessary. The novels are large exuberant things; playful, comic, sexually explicit, sacreligious and exceedingly complex...

Author: By Michael Levenson, | Title: Beyond the End of the End of the Road | 10/6/1972 | See Source »

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