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Director Gabriel Axel has stayed faithful to the saga form without being ponderous or literary. His shots and sequences flow into verses and chapters. Each segment is introduced by a lengthy, panoramic shot as the visual storyteller sets his scene...
...Sound cameras caught some revealing glimpses and comments of Richard Nixon and Hubert Humphrey as they sat self-consciously before their TV screens during the G.O.P. and Democratic Convention balloting. Reasoner's partner, Mike Wallace, interviewed Attorney General Ramsey Clark for the cover story, "Cops." An overseas segment picked up some pointed remarks on U.S. politics from, among others, British Satirist Malcolm Muggeridge. And Columnist Art Buchwald contributed a miniessay on how journalists size up public opinion (they read each other's copy...
This, then, is the mood of a growing segment of our youth. We are radicals, yes, and proudly, for in the face of the contradictions that our society presents, we can be nothing else, without sacrificing our integrity...
...mood of youth shows itself, as we all know, in a variety of forms. Today I want to speak about one controversial segment of our generation, the segment that I know best and consider myself a part of: that group of young men and women whose dissatisfaction has taken the form of a movement for fundamental change in America's social, political, and economic institutions. This group, of course, is still only a minority of the generation--but it is a growing minority, and one that includes many of the most vital, intelligent, and courageous young people...
...love and respect most those professors who make the glorious attempt to reach other people in a profound way; but what distinguishes them is a quality not essential to a professor or an administrator, a businessman or a craftsman--to be humane is not a virtue restricted to any segment of men. There are more great professors here than at most schools; but supremely great human beings are not numerous here, or anywhere. Mr. Alexander, then, does well to shock the newcomers out of expecting this to be a sacred place, untainted by the shortcomings of the world...