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This appears to be a time when Americans are running out of new ideas-and perhaps not a moment too soon. Many of these ideas have not worked out very well. In the tooth-and-claw combat of the intellectual arena, they have been found rather scrawny and undernourished, much like the bulls that are being served up in Spanish rings these days. At the moment of truth, they have fallen short-and so have some of the ambitious social programs built on them. It is no surprise, then, that certain seemingly obsolescent ideas, long ago discarded and (some thought...
...came and took him away and renamed him Benjamin, just like the lady in The Sound and the Fury. The cat was so affected that he never molested the lady's bathtub, but on his first day in his new home, he began to claw the furniture. Thereafter he was well-behaved. Even though he had almost certainly never read any Ezra Pound, apparently, he had become so imbued with the Harvard atmosphere that he didn't want to be taken in on false pretenses of perfection. He was credit to his race and a good...
...brutal war it is, too, masterminded in the conference rooms of conglomerates and waged in the trenches where producers, promoters, distributors, program directors and disk jockeys all snap and claw at the big sound-dollar. The battle rages continually around one crucial question: Is it a hit (ding!) or a miss (thud)? Since only one record in 25 gets a serious shot at survival, the odds are long; simply to break even, a single must sell 25,000 copies, an album 85,000. But then it takes only a couple of hits to compensate for dozens of dogs. This...
Centurion. Just as it is Hoffa's destiny to claw toward power once again, it is Sheridan's fate to oppose him. The author was one of Robert Kennedy's principal aides while Kennedy was chief counsel to the Senate Rackets Committee that investigated Teamster wrongdoing. When Kennedy became Attorney General, Sheridan enlisted as a senior centurion in the Justice Department legion that finally brought Hoffa to justice. Later, as an investigative reporter, Sheridan managed to stay in touch with the case...
...takes tetuge items civilization in the Utah wilderness Sydney Pollack, hailed for They Should Houses Don't They". directed: he cast his old friend. Robert Redford, in the title tole Redford comes to the mountains a young creenborn, enters the tutelage of an old grizzly hunter named Bear Claw, and gets roped into wilderness domesticity when an Indian code of honor forces a wife upon him. Civilization does catch up: a cavalry detachment enlists him to help rescue a party of settlers trapped high in the mountain. The only pass, of course, leads through a sacred Crow burial ground; Redford...