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...Command of the Cosmos. Philosophical fashion may have passed Hocking by, but there is an unmistakable aura of living truth about many of his ideas. "Democracy," he declared in 1946, "is the most difficult and perilous form of government because it calls for unselfishness on the part of officers and voters alike. To sustain this high morality against the tide requires religion, because it is only religion that makes morality a command of the cosmos...
...Aura of Hysteria. Winner in a covert internal coup that ousted longtime CORE Leader James Farmer last winter, McKissick, 44, has lately steered his civil rights outfit, a leader in the movement in the '60s, away from gradual integration toward aggressive Desegregation Now. Almost all white members and most Negro moderates have either resigned or been nudged out of national policymaking positions. Opposition to the war in Viet Nam has reached a hysteria, and CORE leaders have come close to damning any cooperation with whites-as McKissick did during his meeting with the two Baltimore officials...
...Socially and psychologically in limbo, freely indulging his impulses, François may be intended as a natural Everyman but can also seem a bit of a nit, a boy rover in a working-class wonderland. Tested against cold reality, his story rings false; yet Varda gives it the aura of just-discovered truth, of a vision entirely personal and poetic...
...movies real strength lies lies in its acting. Yves Montand, as Graziani, endures insults with rheumy resignation and maintains a respect for his fellow men even when he can no longer stand to be polite to them. Montand's wife, Simone Signoret, as the fading actress, establishes the aura of attractive pathos that has become her trademark. And their daughter, Catherine Allegret, who plays the young girl, is a charming exemplar of wholesome patience and competence...
After this carnage, and after legislative reapportionment, most of the large states were left with Republican governors and Democratic legislatures. These legislatures now vote high budgets for education and welfare (while welfare costs have risen very slowly), and the governors, influenced by the liberal aura of the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations, dutifully sign them into...