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...Collier's Fifth Avenue headquarters, the mysterious project was called "Operation Eggnog." The man in charge of it was Associate Editor Cornelius Ryan, who for nine months acted as cloak & daggerish as if he were blueprinting an atomic war. That was just what he was doing...
...With a Cloak (MGM) is a slow but tolerable melodrama, set in 1848 Manhattan, about a velvet-gloved struggle between good & evil forces for the wealth of a dying reprobate (Louis Calhern). Leslie (An American in Paris) Caron, playing a sweet young thing sent from Paris by the old man's grandson, wants the money for the cause of the French Republic. His calculating housekeeper-mistress (Barbara Stanwyck) wants him to die in a hurry while she is still favored in his will...
...With a Cloak comes equipped vith engaging accessories: talented players, notably Actor Calhern, bright spots of drawing-room dialogue and the atmosphere of a period and locale seldom pictured on the screen. While distinguishing the movie from run-of-the-melodrama, these virtues do not quite offset the slackness and familiarity of its plot...
...author deals more specifically with the role of researcher and teacher. The scholars "have constructed an appealing and compact philosophical package (academic freedom), labeled it truth, and tossed it for enshrinement to the undiscriminating fellow, the liberal... he (the scholar) distends the protective cloak of research to include his activities as a teacher, thereby insuring himself license in the laboratory, which is right and proper, and license in the classroom, which is wrong and improper." Defending the rights of the majority, and assuming that Yale graduates are predominantly Christians and capitalists. Buckley further maintains that Yale must teach the ideologies...
...public property." He then laid down the two conflicting principles that are present in every debate over the release of military information: 1) nobody can seriously argue that military secrets should be made public; 2) on the other hand, he did not want military secrecy to be made a cloak for withholding information about the Government which the people had a right to know. Truman's prepared statement made sense-on its face. Government officials must take the responsibility of saying in each case whether military security outweighs the public right to information. This responsibility carries with...