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...black loafers. When it rains, out come clean white sneakers. At Northwestern, the uniform is dirty white sneakers and full skirts above the knee; at Reed, some girls go barefoot. Skirts are so short at U.C.L.A. that a nervous professor recently announced: "Move back or leave class until I blacken the lower half of my glasses...
This abdication of judicial responsibility means the committee now has the power to blacken the eye of any critic. It will be restrained only by the flimsy "protections" for witnesses the Court suggested in the earlier Barenblatt decision. For example, under a "balancing test" the Court had ruled that Congressional committees could curtail or abridge First Amendment rights only when the Court itself decides that a committee's needs (national defense, internal security) outweigh considerations of rights. But, as Black says, the Wilkinson decision throws away the Court's power to determine whether a committee's needs are pressing...
...those worried about war would take issue with the legal right of the Eastland-Dodd sub-committee to investigate the doings of those in the movement for peace. A legal right, hoever, does not constitute a mandate to blacken the eye of this movement; Senate investigating committees, after all, do not operate in vacuums...
...Broadway-for a rumored final visit to Broadway-in a theater piece of strikingly acrid power. Adapted by Maurice Valency from the German of Swiss Playwright Friedrich Düurrenmatt, The Visit begins in light colors and comedy guise, suddenly to darken the face of its canvas, to blacken the hearts of its characters. A grisly fable of a woman's vengeful hate, it shows a whole community relentlessly succumbing to greed...
...rith's Anti-Defamation League. Forster recalled an interview by a Cogley assistant, said he had not expected word-for-word quotation, and insisted that Cogley had quoted him incompletely. Though he had indeed linked newspapermen, advertising executives and American Legion officials to "clearance" activities that could "un-blacken" performers, Forster said he had no intention of making them out to be "reprehensible" men. Said he: "From where I sat, the men who are alleged to be clearance men in this context were doing good, and not evil." But when Committee Chairman Francis Walter suggested that there really...