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...minor flaws in all but one of Orson Welles' extraordinary films are particularly maddening because they are unnecessary. Since 1940, when Citizen Kane synthesized Horatio Alger and the "film noir" into a critical success, he has used the same ideas, the same flashback techniques, and even the same evil Prometheus as his protagonist. But these methods could not make the the story of a pathetic border sheriff in Touch of Evil as interesting as the life of Charles Foster Kane. Mr. Arkadin has a more heroic figure than the sheriff, but Welles' personal triumph in the title role cannot compensate...
...approval. When he had finished, six Republicans took the floor to praise Ashbrook. Said Iowa's H. R. Gross: "He has said some things that badly needed to be said." Added Missouri's Thomas Curtis: "I could not agree with the gentleman more." Declared Texas' Bruce Alger: "We should do whatever housecleaning is necessary." Not one word was said on Powell's behalf...
...Columbia University). He began his fulminations against organized society in his fiction, in which a jumble of ideas is loosely arranged into plots. All the characters talk the same Goodmanese, part slang, part preaching. "Allow me. I will explain it to you" is a typical conversational gambit. Horatio Alger, the hero of Goodman's biggest novel, The Empire City, pilfers all the cards on file on him in the city, for 20 years prowls about New York in a perfect state of anonymity and anarchy. When an air raid has demolished New York in one of Goodman...
Smith's show was singularly patchy and misshapen, and might have passed unnoticed save for the identity of one of the panelists*: Alger Hiss, who slipped State Department secrets to a Communist spy ring in the 1930s and was later sent to prison for perjury. Nixon, as a tiery young Congressman on the House Un-American Activities Committee, helped bring the Hiss case to light. On the air, Hiss, now a printing salesman, all but accused Nixon of framing him: "He was less interested in developing the facts objectively than in seeking ways of making a preconceived plan appear...
There is a great liberal tradition in this country from the days of Thomas Jefferson; but when that tradition becomes so warped that there is room in it for sympathy for Alger Hiss, but only disgust for Richard Nixon, then, indeed, it is a very sick tradition, and there is no place for it in this nation, nor at Harvard University. Eric A. Ven Salzen...