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...juiceless book is not the only culprit. The music is chiefly loud, and at their best Robert Alton's dances are just conventionally lively. Actress Channing is only intermittently victorious. She has her real moments, with her round, seemingly lidless eyes or her rumbling subway of a voice; she can pronounce a word as though bending it in two or rush feverishly about her various farm chores as though running bases in some mad game played on Mars. But her large-limbed wackiness. so wildly wrong for Gladiola Girls and Lorelei Lees as to prove wonderfully right...
...lawyer's wife, who wore a gold pin shaped like a poodle with ruby eyes on a fashionably faded denim dress, spoke up for the culprit. "Maybe," she said, "he's just neurotic. You know, a member of the out-group trying to get in. Or maybe," the afterthought was startling, "maybe he's just trying to be funny...
...suspicions of a Cambridge officer, who obviously felt that no law-abiding citizen should be caught dead in a long black cape. Seeing this sinister character emerge from a dark side-street, the officer immediately summoned the assistance of two Cambridge youths in order to detain the supposed culprit. The appearance of uncivil inhabitants of the town at an official arrest caused some confusion in the student's mind, and ill-considered words were exchanged on both sides. When the student was found to be without identification, the ensuing heated language eventually led to the imprisonment of an innocent, albeit...
...officials, 16 of whom were cited for offenses ranging from incompetence to fraud, had "wholly ignored" congressional admonitions to base mortgages strictly on actual cost estimates. Some had actually worked for builders on the side, were wined and dined, given "girl parties," and outright bribes. Worst culprit: Assistant FHA Commissioner Clyde L. Powell, 58, boss of the rental-housing program since 1942, who is now serving a one-year jail sentence for refusing to answer a grand jury's questions. One architect said that he paid Powell a $10,000 bribe, and Powell's bank statements showed deposits...
...diagnosis of the conscienceless violence among today's youth, Dr. Lindner has identified the culprit, correctly I believe, as "the lie of adjustment." The end product of this false doctrine, preached by Christian and Marxist alike, is a herd of sheep, preyed upon by wolves in sheep's clothing, where crime is the only means of gaining status . . . The modern child ... is turned over by his parents to his age-group with the command that he adjust-or else. He listens to the same radio and TV programs that his playmates listen to; on no account...