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Alan E. Heimert '49, Cabot Professor of American Literature, who was also considered a possibility for the position, similarly trailed the field, primarily because he was not believed adept at Faculty politics, the sources said...
...reform is designed to abolish much of the power of the chief supervisors, or glavki, in the 34 industrial ministries in Moscow. The glavki will be limited to setting long-term investment and technological policies. They have proved adept at sabotaging previous reforms by constantly changing production targets, setting impractical prices and otherwise meddling in the operation of faraway factories. Presumably, though, the heads of the "production associations" will have more clout in confronting the ministries than the managers of individual plants did after the last reform, because they will speak for much bigger organizations and they are supposed...
...Late, rich middle age, especially in Manhattan, is a kind of death in life -sterile, futile, hopelessly preoccupied with the past, most depressingly so when earlier years have been marked by great drama or endeavor. But the book often reads like some sort of cabalistic fiction that only an adept could decipher...
...would go even further. The censorship of art is, in practical terms, more important than the censorship of trash. If a work is attractive and adept, it has more chance of doing serious social damage than a work which is crude and exploitive. My own favorite candidate for total suppression, of all the films I have seen or heard of, is not a "porno" film, but a work of considerable artistic merit--Rosemary's Baby. This film, which made real a universe in which the power and ultimate triumph of evil are inevitable, did more than any five other factors...
Always an adept actor, Caine is splendid here. His King, quintessentially seedy, strikes just the proper balance between calculated mediocrity and droll detachment. As Gilbert, Mickey Rooney is equal parts Robinson, Cagney and miniature tornado. It is a broad performance, but Hodges draws firm boundaries for it, which Rooney straddles occasionally but never oversteps. The performance, like the movie itself, deserves to become some crazy kind of minor classic...