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...Groucho. Cloris Leachman, who does a terrific job of frowning and mugging through an unrewarding part, may have pilfered from Dame Judith Anderson's role in Rebecca as the forbidding keeper of the Baron's castle. Young Frankenstein stalks about with the mad intensity and even the cap and cloak of Sherlock Holmes (whose film image dates from the 1930s). "Chattanooga Choo-choo," a popular song of the '30s, resurfaces when Wilder leans out of the train window on arrival and asks, "Is this Transylvania Station?" and is answered by other lines from the same song, "Yes, this is Track...
...World War II, Farrar joined Roger Straus Jr. to form a new firm that became Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Throughout his career, Farrar remained committed to popular literature. "I like a good story," he once said, "and I'm bored by a dull, pretentious book, no matter what scholarly cloak it wears...
...past year. Shrewd and capable, Colby has sought from the day he took office as director to channel more of the CIA's efforts into the gathering, evaluation and analysis of information and less into covert actions?the "operational" side of the intelligence business. Says he: "The CIA's cloak-and-dagger days have ended...
...12th century, wrote engagingly that "if mercy were a sin, I believe I could not keep from committing it." Moreover, as a French Jesuit theologian observed last week, by building a religious scaffold for the pardon, Ford may well have hoped to disarm potential critics. "If Ford draws the cloak of New Testament moral theology around his pardon," said Father Michel de Certeau, "it makes it infinitely harder to argue with it. It puts opponents in the position of not having a Christian conscience...
Medical Area organizers concede that a hearing on their bid is inevitable, but they have decided not to join forces with the growing Cambridge effort because their own drive is so advanced. For instance, the cloak of anonymity that admittedly-fearful organizers maintained as late as June of this year has now long-since been shed, and the same workers now advertise their on-the-job telephone numbers on organizing literature...