Word: cricks
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...particular injustices of McCarthy are alarming (though America is pretty used to such), but far less so than his general method of politics that abolishes all distinction between private and public life and responsibility--a method that the author of your article appears to share with him sincerely. Bernard Crick, Teaching Fellow in Government...
...Crick is correct when he says that the right of privacy is an essential part of freedom. I cherish this freedom as greatly as he and would defend as staunchly as he the right of privacy for a private individual. But the only thing private about G. David Schine is his rank in the Army. It was not I who chose to make Mr. Schine a public figure; I would have much preferred to have seen him remain in private life as the president of a hotel chain. But he is now much more, and it was Schine himself...
...purpose in writing this article was not, as Mr. Crick suggests, to "muckrake." It was to place in some perspective Mr. Schine's role in the present squabble in Washington. I tried to show that his life at Harvard foreshadowed the present controversy because it is very much part of his personality, as displayed here, to feel that special privileges are due him. I do not consider this "irrelevant...
When the ceiling, often considered man's supreme achievement with the brush, was done, Michelangelo had a permanent crick in his neck and small thanks (3,000 ducats) from his grumpy boss...
Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick (Paramount), which has been performed more than 50,000 times on the stage as "the greatest of all rural comedies," comes to the screen for the first time without setting any celluloid on fire. This 1919 corn-belt classic by Lieut. Beale Cormack* is a blend of Joe Miller and mellowdrama, with a cast of hayseedy characters: confidence man Bill Merridew (Metropolitan Opera's Robert Merrill), who is out to fleece Josie, the pretty Oklahoma widow (Dinah Shore), only to be outwitted by bashful bumpkin Aaron (Alan Young). To this staple story the picture...