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FULLER'S simplicity and directness come from his belief in the closeness, indeed inseparability, of interior and exterior experience. No bodily barrier can keep the events that assail a character from affecting his mind. Fuller's heroes live in situations involving the most extreme contradictions, the strongest contrary pulls on them. They remain forceful and decisive; Fuller doesn't represent the depth of social contradictions by detailing lengthy processes of decision, by creating vacillating characters. But contradictions take their toll on his tough guys after they decide what...
...Shell Game. Through the years, Sheil's views were often antithetical to those of his church: he opposed, for instance, the Franco regime in Spain. He was among the first to assail the Sunday afternoon fulminations of Radio Priest Charles Coughlin at. home. He adopted as his own the words of French Cardinal Jules Saliege: "The Kingdom of God is not of this world, but it is in this world that...
...talked with objected to professionalism itself as a goal for graduate study though it was by no means clear what goal that thought would be preferable. For our part we see no acceptable alternative to it, nor are we disposed to seek one. It is popular nowadays to assail academic professionalism for its "sterility," "narowness," or "irrelevance." All would agree that a sterile, narrow, person without a proper sense of relevance is a defective human being, but a far worse one is a soi-disant scholar who does not know his business. We think that the primary concern...
...Lately, the range of Wallace's appeal [Sept. 13] has disturbed me. The racist, hate-oriented and obscurantist flavor of his political stand has always offended me. The appeal of his ceaseless efforts to assail the "pseudointellectual" elements in our nation has particularly concerned me. The social, economic, political and technological problems we face are among the thorniest and most complex that have ever confronted us. They require intellect for solution. But George Wallace vilifies intellect and inevitably links it with subversive interests...
House Minority Leader Gerald Ford took the opportunity to assail the electoral-college system as "outmoded and archaic," warning that Wallace's appearance on the ballot could throw the election into the House, where "the politicians" would choose the President. He favors instead the popular election of the President, but would preserve conventions if they were "overhauled a little" to ensure more equitable selection of delegates...