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...simple enough: the American Congress is assumed to fulfill the same function as the fact-finding commissions in European countries, and in truth, in matters that affect only the workings of the Executive, it fulfills it not too badly. Furthermore, extra-governmental organs such as the American Assembly at Arden House or the businessmen's Committee on Economic Development are always busy looking at the government's affairs. There has appeared to exist no need for any more committees...
Arkadin, masterful character both in conception and portrayal, dominates the film, but he cannot carry the work alone. Robert Arden, an unappealing van Stratten, is not a convincing hero. Paola Meri's performance as Raina is even worse. She has one beautiful facial expression, much like a Modigliani portrait, but she refuses to change...
...Long Absence. The old reliable Enoch Arden story, told with skill and significant variations by France's Henri Colpi...
...artists turned up; the press wrote stories about free love. Young Sinclair Lewis quit Yale to work there as a furnace tender for a month and proposed to Upton's blonde secretary (she turned him down). The school building burned down, and the Sinclairs joined another colony in Arden, Del., where one idealist turned up with two suitcases full of manuscripts and left with Sinclair's wife. Another, an anarchist shoemaker, insisted on discussing the physiology of sex in mixed company. Expelled by the comrades, the vengeful cobbler laid an information against the colony for violation...
...Ronaldson '64 has been elected president of the executive council of the Harvard debating team. Other officers selected recently are: William L. Burke '64, vice-president; John B. Rogers '64, treasurer; James H. McGrew '65, corresponding secretary; Richard J. Stillman '65, publicity director; Richard T. LcGates '65, home secretary; Arden Doss '64, director of competitions...