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...such as Berrigan's play--sacrifices characterization and theatrical expressiveness in order to get the simple facts straight and pure. This can be deadly dull. And, though I've not seen the play, only read it, I assume that the nearness of the Catonsville Nine's trial, and some clever ploys at arousing consequent emotional tension (including film clips of the actual Catonsville action), are what insured its almost universal acceptance one year...
...Pusey, there is really no difference in sincerity between the two men: like Pusey, Bok believes in what he does, and he does what he feels is best for Harvard. Student protests are the product of institutions as much as the men who run them: no President however clever or sincere, can avoid serious disagreements over policy in a community as diverse as this...
Moment of Truth. Barzel, the reputedly clever tactician, was shortsighted and defiant, and helped paint his party into a tight corner by adamantly opposing ratification. The C.D.U. leaders repeatedly charged that the treaties were a sellout of German interests to Moscow. Privately, though, they hoped that the treaties would pass, so that the party should not bear the onus of holding up detente. Thus both sides procrastinated until the moment of truth arrived-and the result was what one Bonn political observer describes as "a grade-B performance-Brandt and Barzel...
...avoid unless one is dealing with a hero in diagulse like Joyce's Leopold Bloom, or one romanticizes the characters as in Hollywood movies. Hollywood truckdrivers and gangsters had dialogue written for them by James Agee and William Faulkner and Dudley Nichols, so if they weren't exactly clever at least they talked fast and sharp...
...helps to debunk the image of Gertrude Stein as blue-stocking and "great Jewish Buddha," by quoting Braque's comment that "Miss Stein understood nothing of what went on around her." Admitting that this judgment may be too harsh. Day concludes that Stein was an intelligent and lucky opportunist, "clever enough to make herself indispensable to those at the center...