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Washington Post Executive Editor Benjamin Bradlee, recalling the mood while his paper was being denounced, says: "Talk about minefields! One major slip in this story would have destroyed us. We were playing with the entire well-being of the Post company." While that statement contains a touch of hyperbole, it does reflect the sense of vulnerability many newsmen felt while the "major media" were under attack. Such apprehension has been replaced by a feeling of vindication; the traditional stance of the press in American society-rambunctious, independent, skeptical-has been proved valid again. There were two other, more specific lessons...
...last image of the film, and in its recurrences drives the intensity of the film back on itself. Scenes repeated give a feeling of something of incredible difficulty being made. This impression extends to our glimpses of Sebastien and Claire's difficult relationship, where the real meanings and aggressions slip out under lines as prepared as those of the theater sequences. Tone becomes very important, and Rivette handles it very subtly, as he does almost all the elements at a director's disposal. Some tiny scenes almost lost in the film's bulk delicately inform the whole: a baby...
...addition to its investigation, the Committee must instruct its staff members and alumni recruiters to give first priority in the future to enrolling more well-qualified black applicants. Too often tradition-laced institutions like Harvard slip into an attitude of benign neglect. Such an attitude harms Harvard, not merely by its destruction of the ideal of a heterogeneous University community, but because it reflects a moral failure on the part of the school to actively combat minority oppression in the outside world. For Harvard to accept 10 per cent or fewer blacks in order to reflect the proportion of blacks...
...outward signs of crisis are clear enough. The leafy green capital of Phnom-Penh, its population swelled to 1,500,000 by some 400,000 refugees from the fighting, remains cut off from most of the country. Two convoys of ships from South Viet Nam managed to slip up the Mekong River through heavy Communist gunfire (see next story). About 400 trucks carrying food supplies arrived safely from Kompong Som, on the western seaboard. The blockade has technically been broken, but it may take weeks to determine whether the Communist offensive has been turned back...
...formality. The Poles, who spend the day in swimming shorts or underwear, change into their baggy uniforms and hunt-and-peck on the typewriters, turning out reports to be packeted to Can Tho. The Hungarians, who sport smart blue athletic shorts and white V-necked T shirts by day, slip on long pants and also work on reports. The Indonesians, accustomed to the daytime heat, spend all their time in full uniform. And the Canadians, who have no uniform of the day, stroll about in shorts at night...