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...work is of a piece with conventional liberal sentiment; there is the same failure to differentiate between various Indian peoples, the tired old noble savage myth, et al. More appallingly characteristic, there is no thought for the million or so Indians still alive; no disturbance to break his carefully wrought mood. Only grad students in film school can afford the luxury of this kind of sentimentality. Yet Gershfield gives the appearance at least of being aware of his position; his work is shot through with a sense of failure, and the lament seems to be as much for his inability...
...schoolteacher. The Bill Cosby Show (NBC) has also had its weeks, as have My World and Welcome to It (NBC), the sitcom about a cartoonist resembling Thurber, and The Bold Ones (NBC), the doctor-lawyer-police trilogy. But if anyone should take a new look at what TV has wrought this past season, it is the networks...
...quite different in that leadership in these painful disengagement's over there came from the head of government. And in the American Revolution, although there was indeed Edmund Burke, who could see English principles victorious in the rise of the Revolutionary Republic, it was the thirteen colonies themselves who wrought the victory...
...this to come to pass, we must repent as a nation what we have inadvertently wrought at such a cost to them and to ourselves and to the U.N. and all that it could stand for. For this to come to pass, we can not speak henceforth of what may be honorable but rather of what may be just. For something positive to come out of this mutual agony; can we not restrain all speech about defeat or victory, except it be the victory of a people healed by its own stripes, by chastisement made whole...
...kinds of crusades. Senator Thomas Dodd even smuggled in a swipe at the Demon Weed. Must be that Vietnam marijuana, he sagely reasoned, that turned American soldiers, traditionally "well-mannered, loyal, kind to a fault," into maniacs. "Heaven knows," he went on, "we've seen the violence wrought by marijuana here at home." If you've seen photos of Lt. William R. Calley, awaiting trial for the murder of 109 Vietnamese civilians, you can picture the type of salivating addict that Dodd is talking about...