Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...films like Elvis and Woodstock alone seem able to withstand the rush of events. A few years ago, Monterey Pop was an equally annoying achievement-full of interminable concentration on the Mamas and the Papas (John Phillips was in on its financing) and packed with a lollipop and roses view of life. But, ironically, due to the deaths of Redding, Hendrix, and Joplin, all of whom appear in the film, it is now, for all its flaws as a film, one of the few permanent memories of their work we have...
...support and assistance of protesting urban groups, and so on. I do not believe that service functions such as these are managed by sinister agents of a Maoist revolution any more than I believe that the DAS is managed by the running dogs of an imperialist power. My view is that most service functions of the University are run by men who believe that the function is making a real social contribution. But how is the University as a collectivity to decide which of these activities to wrap within its mantle...
Michael Sobel '72 said, "I don't know if it was done intentionally, but the timing of the bombing just before the Thanksgiving recess couldn't have been better. It will be pretty hard to get people mobilized. And from a political point of view, the fact that elections are over is probably not just coincidental...
...quoted several remarks of mine concerning "the new terror" in the U.S. You did not, however, quote my diagnosis of the phenomenon: that it is the result of the political system's inability to reform itself from within. I would like your readers to know that, in my view, this violence will continue until America makes the choice between a radical social transformation and neofascist repression. Terrorism is symptomatic of anarchic social conditions created by the inability of the present corporate state to solve the people's problems. Until the corporate state becomes a people's state...
...life, I have had a certain idea of France. The emotional side of me naturally imagines France as the princess of the fairy tales or the Madonna of the frescoes, as though dedicated to a lofty and exceptional destiny. In short, in my view, France cannot be France without grandeur...