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Despite the fact that Liberian politics are not exactly democratic-Tub-man's True Whig Party has no effective opposition-"Uncle Shad" has never kept himself aloof from his people. He hears hundreds of petitions each week in his $6,000,000 sun-reflector-coated palace, settles even minor...
Most of the film has an alarmingly derivative style, and much of it is secondhand. The screwball scene in which Benjamin breaks up the wedding is uncomfortably close to Morgan. The editing features tricky sound overlaps from one scene to another and quick jump cuts from faces to bodies and...
Difficult to Finance. More pruning and streamlining is to come, and more employees are likely to lose their jobs before the dust settles. In the end, Interpublic may bear only a slight resemblance to the company Marion Harper built and led. Says Carl Spielvogel, president of Interpublic's Market...
What bothers Peretz, he says in Commentary magazine, is Ramparts' anti-Jewish attitude toward the Arab-Israeli war. Editor Hinckle, says Peretz, likes to be "flippy"-that is, perverse in a flip, hippie sort of way. This translates into articles like the one Peretz calls "the most carefully selective...
In this mood, reason--the university--gives up the claim to direct social change, and settles instead for the immediate rewards of technical manipulation and becomes an efficient means to ends beyond its power or judgment. It is strengthened in this tendency by a widespread assumption that in America the...