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...bring into the world an unwanted child is the greatest sin of all. It is a sin against mother, child, and society. It is appalling to know that there are people in the world who claim to have more compassion for a developing zygote than for a suffering segment of the population. Preacher, chastise thyself...
Guardedness. Two segments from the one-hour program illustrate what everyone was arguing about. One showed the daily 11 a.m. press briefing at the Pentagon. During the session covered by the CBS cameras, the briefing official was asked, according to Pentagon count, 34 questions. He answered 31, begged off on one on grounds of security, and said he would have to "check back" before replying to the other two. In the excerpt CBS showed, the briefing had been edited down to just six of the exchanges, including all three evasions. Any viewer might reasonably have inferred that the Pentagon...
...speakers came to Harvard to justify a criminal American war policy. A segment of the Harvard community met them, and the policy they expressly came to represent, with a loud and unequivocal negation. And so they left. And all those who oppose the war must recognize the essential reality of what happened: pro-war propagandists came to Harvard and were met by a hostile audience. Which is not, in our minds, a cause for great sadness...
...committee concludes the section by saying these views "seem . . . to be held by a significant segment of the student body, and if some within it may be dissenters by temperament, it includes many reflective students as well...
...actress play himself. Certain scenes are tinted red to reflect his internal struggle. The dialogue teeters on eloquence, but oftimes fails. Although the direct explication of his problems seems honest enough, the film seems to put a cloud between us and Frank's core. But there is a searing segment when Frank films some convicts in prison for life, singing spirituals. It is noble, powerful... so obviously real and honest that it literally leaps out at the audience. Sad, refreshing, powerful, memorable... then the movie cuts to the silly actress high on something, satirically singing the same songs...