Word: destroyed
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Some of the performances, however, nearly transcend their material. Jack Cassidy as the gossip columnist Max Mencken is unbelievably slick and professional. Michael O'Sullivan hams to a proper excess as a ten-time Nobel Prize loser who takes revenge on the world by trying to destroy its culture-hero, Superman. Bob Holiday's deadpan makes him perfect for the title role...
However clear the failures of Southern justice, it is far from clear what should be done about them without weakening the nation's legal structure. Certainly no one wants to destroy the jury system in order to correct its abuses. After the Hayneville acquittal, Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach said: "This is the price you have to pay for the jury system, and I don't think it's too high a price. The situation has changed a great deal already...
...from being wrong, testified Walter H. Judd, former Minnesota Republican Congressman, U.S. China policy since 1950 has been "hardheaded and realistic." Judd, a former medical missionary in China, insisted that a softer attitude would not only betray the Nationalist Chinese but destroy the faith of U.S. allies elsewhere. He caustically recalled that efforts to placate Japan in the late '30s "did not lead to peace, they led to Pearl Harbor," and snapped that many of the critics who preceded him were advocating that "same general approach to aggression in Asia today...
...supplest satire in the show. But Superman's chief foe is a mad scientist and perennial Nobel Prize dropout: "I've bought ten tickets to Stockholm." Played by Michael O'Sullivan in his best witch-minus-broomstick style, the scientist seeks revenge by attempting to destroy the symbol of goodness in Metropolis. He brain-shrinks Superman (a difficult feat) with the suggestion that being rocketed out from the exploding planet Krypton as a child has left him with a rejection trauma that demands the compensatory adulation of millions...
...group, spawned during a lunch conversation, fears that the University may some day demolish the entire hall. A new clock tower, they believe, would make the building too "aesthetically appealing" to destroy...