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During his stay, Dulles will give a press conference and direct a number of seminars, which the Committee hopes will provide an opportunity for increasing the business student's involvement in public affairs. The major emphasis will be on the informal and candid exchange of ideas...
...Renoir quickly learned that the camera is candid, he also found that the public enjoys being fooled. His first major film, La Chienne (The Bitch), failed to attract an audience, "A Romanian friend," he relates, "advertised it at his theater by saying 'Don't see this picture, and if you see it don't bring your children.' The picture played for six months...
Last week, in a candid nine-page pamphlet, twenty-two members of the Faculty, led by Professor Giles Constable, released an "Alternate Proposal" to the Doty Committee Report on General Education. In the nine pages, the professors do what the Doty Committee, after more than a year of deliberation, failed to do: They ask most of the proper questions and outline most of the plausible answers. In addition, the pamphlet promises to inject into the center of today's Faculty debate a concern for two issues that have too long remained on the periphery of discussion: the need for small...
...children. "The best of the new shows," says NAFBRAT, "are Slavery's People, Many Happy Returns, Bewitched, Mr. Magoo, World War I, and Twelve O'clock High" But on the dark side, NAFBRAT looks after its own in very unmealy language. For example, NAFBRAT says that Candid Camera is a "Peeping Tom show, without taste or sincerity." The Bob Hope Theater is summarized as being just so many "bedroom backgrounds for humor and crime." The Man from U.N.C.L.E., according to NAFBRAT, is "television at its worst. This is right out of the nightmare factory." And even Flipper...
There were lots of post-mortems about November. Kentucky Senator Thruston Morton, a former national chairman, drew cheers with a candid critique, most of it aimed straight at Goldwater. "We lost because of fear," he said, "the most common emotion to all mankind." The Democrats played on general fears of nuclear war and the loss of Government economic benefits. Moreover the Republicans had failed to "accentuate the positive," added Morton, had oversimplified complex problems such as Viet Nam, and had alienated the Negro vote. "There are those in our party, both North and South, who say 'Forget the Negro...