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...altogether agreeable. "If I'd known they were going to run it," he said, "I would have tried to stop it." In the second place, the ad applauded Editor Patrick's "indifference to the pressures of advertisers and the heckling of publishers." Publishers rarely buy ads to confess that they heckle their editors, or to praise their editors for resisting...
...down the elevator shaft. "I've not touched her," mutters Cust, wiping imaginary blood from his hands. But she has touched his anesthetized conscience. Ironically, Cust is appointed to Vanan's post, but the final scene finds him climbing wearily, agonizingly up the stage-rear steps to confess his guilt to the supreme justice of the land...
...must confess I liked best the simplest of the dances, performed not by Shanta Rao herself but by her assistants, Chandramati and Padma. Imagine if you can an Indian Sophia Loren, as my companion in the audience suggested, and a lovely doll-like Oriental performing a dance of intense flirtation with the audience, whispering silently to them, looking them in the eye. One was sultry, pouting; the other prim and coquettish; yet both were dancing the same steps. When one glared out of the corner of her eye, the other peeked; yet both moved their eyes at the same time...
...mending the nation's racial division: white ministers and priests are everywhere waking up to the need to help Negroes through secular action -fund drives, picket lines, finding jobs, breaking down housing segregation. But at the same time, the hatred that brought on the bombing showed what clergymen confess to be the worst in their role: their inability to stand in pulpits and to preach Acts 17:26 (God "hath made of one blood all the na tions of men") with sufficient eloquence to change hearts in great numbers...
...first New York Film Festival, now at Lincoln Center's Philharmonic Hall, must confess its infancy compared to Cannes and to Venice, which had its first film festival in 1932. But by its taste and high excitement, by the quality of its films and the intelligence of its sellout crowds, it may well mark for Americans a redefinition of what movies are and who it is that sees them. For in the decade since Hollywood came unstuck and television became the reigning medium of mass entertainment, the movies have suddenly and powerfully emerged as a new and brilliant international...