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...running as an independent candidate for the two remaining years of the Senate seat which used to belong to the President--a seat which the President's brother, the Speaker's nephew, and the ex-Senator's son also covet. There is no incumbent and no presidential race to blur the issues. If Hughes gets a big vote he will certainly dramatize his platform and advance the pressure not only for gradual disengagement of the United States from areas of Cold War conflict but also for an extension of the welfare programs that have lapsed since the New Deal...

Author: By Josiah LEE Auspitz, | Title: H. Stuart Hughes | 4/18/1962 | See Source »

...command from C.C. & S., it started shooting video pictures of the moon about 30,000 miles away. At this point Ranger III made its first error: it did not hold its dish antenna pointed steadily at the earth; the pictures that it sent to earth were an almost meaningless blur, no use at all to the stay-at-home scientists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Disobedient Rocket | 2/9/1962 | See Source »

This reviewer's biases should be taken into account, because they obviously deflect the conclusions. Ibsen's no favorite of mine, and Rosmersholm is not among his finer plays. But even these biases could not blur the polished stagecraft clearly displayed at the Loeb...

Author: By Frederick H. Gardner, | Title: Rosmersholm | 12/8/1961 | See Source »

...greatest, these qualities usually prove disastrous. Night Thoughts. Wilson's collected poems and prose poems, is not the work of a great poet. Its chameleonic variousness, technical prestidigitation, and lack of direction disqualify it even as the work of a good poet. The total effect is a blur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: After-Dinner Poetry | 12/8/1961 | See Source »

...example, in the first half of the movie, everyone immediately gets the point that the imposter Bardone (de Sica) is a criminal parasite and a coward. The point is drummed out in several scenes which do not explore Bardone's character so much as they blur by repetition the first impression of him. One episode, in which Bardone accepts money from a girl he had deserted, is irrelevant and should have been cut completely...

Author: By Stephen C. Rogers, | Title: General della Rovere | 10/17/1961 | See Source »

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