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...York Times has thus published an Election Handbook, which contains between its paper (and therefore cheap) covers a cogent summary of information relevant to the forthcoming election. The book is not meant for Harvard government majors, perhaps not even for the most impenetrable science types. It is meants for the average voter who, alas, probably won't read it. Nevertheless, the Election Handbook is a valuable public service...
Even a non-cultist, however, will enjoy this movie, the second in what promises to be an endless series. Whereas Doctor No, its undistinguished predecessor, tried to cover up a poorly adapted science fiction plot by wallowing in Grade C sex, Russia presents a cogent story line (better, in fact, than the original), and at least three spectacular scenes, each capable of drawing spontaneous applause from any audience. The sex has also been moved up a grade--you won't want to miss the Turkish mode of female competition in the second reel...
While correctly reporting Professor Friedman's objection to the so-called civil rights bill as a dangerous precedent in the face of over-riding prejudice of the majority of Americans, you reporter failed to mention what seem to be cogent historical parallels in the cases of Irish and Jewish emergence from the position of expressed minorities. Here Professor Friedman pointed out this rise in status as occurring not under the protection of governmental legislation, but, rather, under the function of the market mechanism...
...clever bit of behind-the-scenes journalism, not a blow for human rights, and his uniquely personal experience does little but reaffirm the existence of bigotry. Magnified on the screen, it suggests unintentionally that the public and private indignities suffered by the black man appear somehow more cogent, vivid and unjust when a white man has to bear them...
Durant is at his best in his cogent, detailed discussion of that oddly reactionary heretic, Baruch Spinoza, who by conceiving of the universe as one elemental, infinite substance, indivisible from God, finally achieved what the age had not thought possible-an accommodation between science and religion...