Word: cons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...season's hit song in Havana, sung to the tune of Jingle Bells: "Con Fidel, con Fidel, todos con Fidel...
...Bobby had defenders too ("There is no doubt," said the Denver Post, "of Robert Kennedy's competence or zeal to do his job"), and even conservative Columnist David Lawrence, swallowing hard, was not as outraged as expected: "Whether the appointment was wise politically . . . will be discussed pro and con for some time to come." Asked the Boston Record: "Why anticipate controversy? Bob Kennedy is not a controversy until and unless he botches his duties-an eventuality that would be most un-Kennedylike." The press might still have its misgivings about Kennedy family planning, but so far is plainly determined...
...Learned. The trouble with Molly was that she feared nothing, especially her own limitations, and liked to indulge in the vocational therapy of the rich-changing vocations. She dropped acting for painting, painting for playwriting. G.B.S. steadily urged her to be a disciplined pro, but her game was con, starting sadly enough with herself...
...furs. One victim, finally, put in a timid call to the authorities, to ask if the night visitors were really official. Last week the "secret policemen" who had spread a little incidental terror from Moscow and Leningrad to Kharkov and Stalino were exposed as a gang of criminals and con men headed by one Leon Voskonian...
...have won, we have lost," they say sadly, thinking of their dead companions. "Only the farmers have won," an old man agrees. "They remain forever. They are like the land. You are like the wind ... a strong wind [chasing] the locusts . . . blowing over the land and passing on. Vayan con Dios." Technically, the film is up to big-studio standards. Color, camera work, acting and direction (John Sturges) are competent. But the script (William Roberts) is what gives this western its special dimensions of inwardness and dignity. Expert but sensitive, the writer searches even more intimately than Kurosawa did into...