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Since 1932, the prevailing tendencies of the times have gone against Judge Smith. He has authored some important legislation-notably the anti-subversive Smith Act-but his essential role in Congress has been to delay defeat for his causes. Sam Rayburn has moved with the drift of things, and so helped to make history, not just slow it down...
This process has failed to result in any erosion of our liberties in the last 20 years, he declared. "The whole conception of totalitarianism through drift is a figment of fantasy... The road to serfdom lies not through strong government but through impotent democratic government...
...that there is anything wrong in itself about Harvard. On the contrary, Harvard has an old and venerable history. But it is also true that, in more recent years, its reputation has not been exactly enhanced by its evident drift from earlier Christian-American moorings. The fact is this tendency has become so pronounced in recent years that it has prompted one observer to remark: "No matter what trail of left-wing thinking or activity you investigate, it will lead ultimately and inevitably to Harvard University, whether it deals with Keynesian socialism, Marxism, or Bolshevik Communism...
...Ustinov, playing an unmarried remittance man who has to beat the girls off with a waddy, makes a comical old dag. But when it comes to stealing scenes, the actors often have to give way to the dingoes, the wombats, and especially to the endless flocks of sheep that drift across the screen like clouds with hooves. Sheep are also involved in the film's best sequence, a glorious piece of frontier humor in which Mitchum enters a shearing contest and takes a terrible licking from an 80-year-old man (Wylie Watson). Stone the crows...
...narcotics and women. As fast as new land is reclaimed from the sea, it sprouts offices, apartments, factories, mills, warehouses, docks. Ships flying a score of flags sail from Hong Kong to the far parts of the earth-Abidjan, Khorramshahr, Miri, Zanzibar. Nearly 20,000 Chinese junks and sampans drift over its waters, and green-painted barges marked with the yellow stars of Red China slip down the Pearl River from Canton...