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Fantasy is a disadvantaged genre that is always at the mercy of the audience. And it is quite possible to step back from these films in contempt, dismissing them in the name of realism or scope or any other arbitrary criterion. But I suspect that would say more about us than the films. They promise nothing; they explain nothing; they give us only simple unaffected fantasy. But they succeed as far as we let them and, deserters all, we owe something to the supernatural...
...freshman U.S. Senator in 1954, Ervin thrust himself onto the front pages with a folksy anecdote underlining his contempt for his Communist-hunting Wisconsin colleague Joe McCarthy. According to Ervin, Uncle Ephraim Swink, a sick, arthritic mountaineer, was called upon to testify to his religious experiences at a revival meeting. Uncle Ephraim remained silent. Finally the minister said, "Brother Swink, suppose you tell us what God has done for you." Uncle Ephraim pulled his crippled body from his seat and replied, "Brother, he has mighty nigh ruint me." Said Ervin: "Mr. President, that is about what Senator McCarthy has done...
...motion calls on the courts to enjoin the government from releasing any further evidence before the trial. It also requests that S. John Cottone, U.S. Attorney in Harrisburg, and William SLynch, the Justice Department attorney now directing the grand jury investigation in Harrisburg, be found in contempt of court for "purposeful and deliberate violation of the defendants' [Constitutional] rights...
...were being asked were vague and irrelevant and violated their rights under the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Ninth Amendments. They placed particular emphasis on the First Amendment, which protects free speech and association. But the district court judges hearing their cases sentenced all of them to jail for contempt...
...fact, four of the defendants had already been sentenced to six months in jail by a Missouri district court judge, when they were indicted by the federal Grand Jury. Following their participation in the May 4 demonstration, the judge found them guilty of contempt of a restraining order against obstructive demonstrations, obtained earlier by Washington University. The two students who received five-year sentences for violating the Civil Obedience Act were convicted under the restraining order for the same action-throwing a fire cracker at a policeman...