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...scarcely be overestimated. The pressures of vocation and career are particularly intense in our society. Individuals abound who have grown so immersed in their work that they become narrow human beings--unable to appreciate much of what goes on around them, incapable of enjoying their leisure hours, and bereft of resources for the period late in life when they no longer have their careers to sustain them. The point of encouraging serious intellectual pursuits, however, is not simply to enrich the hours away from work, important as that may be. Without a breadth of interests, one may lack the learning...
...evening bereft of joy. Early returns showed its candidate running behind in areas where he had assumed widespread support, and its enthusiasm, dampened by the inauspiciousness of the early returns, ebbed steadily as the evening wore on. Kerry remained in seclusion most of the night and his absence heightened the anxieties of his supporters. He did not appear until 1:30 a.m. and then only to give a last-gasp, don't-give-up-the-ship statement. Kerry was reserved and grave in his remarks. "It's a very, very close election, he said. There was no sign of encouragement...
...whether the open door would be dangerous. We have begun to get caught up in the adventure of the affair. The roof, on this Tuesday afternoon, is primarily melting tar, but a tour around the narrow ledge gives us no trouble at all. The Garden roof is bereft of good hiding places save the fire escapes, and the dogs are guarding them. But we are very thorough, checking the ventilator shafts, and the doors. There's no place to hide, and it occurs to me that I am doing things I wouldn't dream of doing if this wasn...
Since 80% of the delegates were first-timers, some veteran political reporters found themselves bereft of old-line power-broker sources. "I've been covering these things for 20 years," complained Columnist Robert Novak, "and I don't know a soul here." But Novak and others had only to look away from the sea of fresh faces on the floor to find old hands like Frank Mankiewicz, Pierre Salinger and Richard Dougherty at McGovern headquarters, eager to brief newsmen on plans and tactics. "This convention's easier to cover," maintained Thomas Ross of the Chicago Sun-Times...
...dialogue is mostly stand-up comic patter, and the movie is virtually bereft of visual humor. Herbert Ross, who was also responsible for T.R. Baskin and the musical remake of Goodbye, Mr. Chips, continues to direct as if he were dressing a window at Bloomingdale's. Everything looks terribly fussy and sterile. Play It Again, Sam badly needs the headlong energy and comic chaos that Allen worked into Take the Money and Run and, especially, Bananas, both of which he directed himself. Allen's comedy is at its best when it is loose and utterly crazy, untouched...