Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Ideology seems like a feeble check on government, even to Marxists, and scarcely explains why the ruled defer to their rulers. Ceremony does explain. Legend, myth, and self-deception-the pomp of government-"siphon off dangerous emotions" and screen politics from public view. Cabinets, parliaments, and monarchy lacked the substance of power. Crossman wished to strip government of the Noble Lie and confront his audience with the garish clanking of the party machine. He may even have wished to demonstrate the drawbacks of the British system to Anglophile political scientists. But, as the Godkin series proceeded, he showed much affection...
...export) than in her previous 200 years of existence, that Cuba will become self-sufficient in rice and other vegetables during this decade, that the once-non-existent fishing industry is growing fast, that children get free milk, that everyone has enough, that blacks and women have jobs. In view of all this, how can the Magarolas say that the 10 million tons are "monoculture"? The sugar curplus will bring Cuba some badly needed agricultural machines...
...paint anyone in unrelieved black. He describes middle-level bureaucrats, the same men who undercut his efforts at every turn in the Peace Corps, as victims of the Machine no less than himself. His condemnation of institutions rather than men may be equivocating from a radical's point of view. But the multi-dimensionality of the officials in Cowan's account (like Erich Hofmann, the "poor schlemiel of an ex-Luftwasfe pilot" who wanted to squelch all boat-rocking at least until he secured his U.S. citizenship) underlines the truth that the tragedy of America admits of few clear villains...
...utmost attention to raising the political, cultural and vocational standard of women, in view of their merits in the struggle against U.S. aggression, for national salvation. To develop the Vietnamese women's traditions of heroism, dauntlessness, fidelity and ability to shoulder responsibilities...
...characters. Ken Russel's direction provides wit and a pictorial opulence that belie the film's lean budget. But Women in Love oscillates too frequently from the shrill to the booming, from woman to man, from instinct to rationale, without once adapting a coherent point of view. In time, the narcissistic opus becomes like its author, who ultimately lived down to Katherine Anne Porter's summation. He gives, she said, "the nightmarish impression of the bisexual snail squeezed into its narrow house making love to itself...