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...party," he said of his fellow liberals. "It's no great service to the party to be stubborn and dogmatic in one's views." Then he adds: "The old New Dealer's sole idea was to 'get it done,' and the devil take the methods. Today, liberals are more concerned with protecting procedural rights and the use of proper constitutional methods...
...once more getting involved. President Eisenhower last week sent General J. Lawton Collins, onetime Army Chief of Staff, to South Viet Nam to see what could be done. "Lightning Joe" Collins found himself in a devil's brew of cynicism, intrigue and despair. His own role was difficult. He would not be able to give orders; he would only be able to recommend, pressure and persuade. U.S. officials on the scene would like the French to recall their mission from Hanoi and quit dealing with Ho Chi Minh, to call the Vietnamese generals off Diem...
...script puts Father Brown (Alec Guinness) up to his usual trick of bringing a criminal not to the judicial bar but to the communion rail. His prospective proselyte : a famous international crook called Flambeau (Peter Finch). The cunning old fisher of men lets the devil bait the hook-with a pretty widow (Joan Greenwood). Widows, as somebody in the picture remarks, are irresistible because "if you are better than the first [husband], they are grateful, and if you are worse, they are not surprised...
...slow bus to nowhere. Committees beget committees, pressure groups stall each other in what one critic described as the dance of rainmakers who have lost their magic. The ruling class sketched by Author Musil has lost not only its magic, but its faith in God, its fear of the Devil and its confidence in itself. It has opinions but no convictions, techniques but no principles, ideals but no beliefs. In short, its troubles may be more timely than at first appears. Author Musil can be dreary, but at his best his aphorisms are bright, brittle icicles. Samples...
Beauty and the Devil does, however, occasionally stumble. Toward the end, for example, the light vein is momentarily broken by Faust's sudden philosophic despair. ("The poorest beggar at least owns his own soul," he complains to his lover.) Nevertheless, the picture, enlivened by Leon Barsacq's lavish sets, is a distinct triumph of French joie de vivre over the sombre morality of previous Faust legends...