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...miles of divided highway that stretches between the busy Fairbanks airport and Fort Wainwright, a sprawling Army base just outside the center of Fairbanks; more conspicuous are the J. C. Penney's department store and the Colonel Sanders Kentucky Fried Chicken Take-Home and the A and W Root Beer drive-in and the two Dairy Queens. In a very short time, largely because of the presence of Fort Wainwright and the nearby Eisling Air Force Base, Fairbanks has expanded to accommodate a new influx of modern Americans and their tastes. "Ten years ago," complained one old Fairbanks resident...
Imprecise Charges. Even as it moved to plant its political seedbed, the regime last week also acted to root out what little unwanted advice and opposition it still has to endure. A few months ago, Papadopoulos slowly began to relax some of the colonels' rigid controls, but hard-liners in the junta's twelve-man inner circle immediately grew alarmed. Now Papadopoulos is retrenching, fearful of losing his struggle to stay on top. One of the measures that he authorized last week was a decree that persons spreading "false reports or rumors" detrimental to anything from police morale...
...cities; in the East, mountains, rivers and gardens." The great Hindu poet Rabindranath Tagore suggested that the East produced a "whole man," the West only an "economic man." Indeed, despite missionaries' ability to find cultural accommodation with the East, Catholicism would still have faced stiff resistance. At root, Asian religion sees the individual as an inconsequential part of the cosmos, while Christianity emphasizes the uniqueness of the individual-a basic difference not easily overcome...
...they lash out at the world which deceived them; they attack the society that created the Santa lie. Obviously, anticrime measures might better be anti-Claus bills. In conclusion, our entire social program could just be dropped social program could just about be dropped if we could conquer this root cause...
...just the space between foreground and background masses. In each case Rocha's dialectical construction tells us the precise nature of their relationship. As elsewhere, dialectic shows itself to be the best way of understanding events, of laying them open to us. The central fact about this film, the root of its success, is that its method is perfectly in accord with our understanding: dialectic may or may not be the way material reality functions, but it's certainly the way our conscious reasoning and our dramatic imagination work...