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...Thompson in his cabin as he bangs out his story. The movie says nothing about the New Journalism or about Thompson's vision. Where the Buffalo Roam ignores Thompson's peculiar optimism, his cynical idealism that makes him distrust the system but hope obstinately for something better. The only insight the film makes into Thompson's character comes when, reflecting upon his bizarre adventures, he sighs, "It never got weird enough...
...professional appointment. If Mr. Harberger had stabbed his political enemies in Chicago and torn out their hearts with his hands, he should still not be barred by us from becoming a professor at Harvard. Who knows, in the course of this experience he might have had a visionary insight into the silliness of general equilibrium analysis for the sake of which a grateful, irresponsible, and dazzled posterity might forgive him his crimes. As people and as citizens we do not allow the ends to justify the means. We rightly try not to participate in posterity's characteristic moral indifference...
...strength has always been in the late 19th and early 20th century repertory, in the music of such composers as Tchaikovsky, Strauss, Sibelius, Ravel and Debussy. Here he conducts with color and sweep, with glowing sonorities and vivid details. If he has seemed short on profound emotion or penetrating insight, notably into classical composers like Mozart and Beethoven, his musicianship-his pitch, timing and ear for balances and shadings-has always been impeccable. Having inherited a great ensemble from Stokowski, he made it greater. He has hired virtually all of the orchestra's 106 members and molded them into...
...able to recognize when it is necessary to make an exception" to conservative tenets. Reagan, in fact, demonstrated just that ability when he was Governor of California from 1967 to 1975. As Jimmy Carter and the nation have learned, a man's record as Governor provides only limited insight into how he would perform in the far more difficult role of President. Still, Reagan's conduct in the Governor's office did at least demonstrate that his conservative bark often carried little bite when he tackled the practical problems of governing his state. TIME Los Angeles Bureau...
Ordinarily the public is neither as conflict-ridden nor as relentlessly bombarded with daily polls as we are now. Though the contemporary scene makes for confusion and instability, there is one consolation. The confusion presents a unique opportunity to gain an insight indispensable to all who rely upon poll data. It highlights a missing element in the relationship of opinion polls to the public whose views they register...