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...Night" like several other stories in this collection, ends with a saccharine postscript amounting to "they married and lived happily ever after." "The Dance" which involves a jealous murder, is so blatant that it reads like a cruddy mystery. Where plot and dialogue run thinnest, Fitzgerald seems to dwell on elaborate descriptions of resorts, bars, and clothes, reducing stories like "The Hotel Child" to lists of Europe's lush spots. Even the rich can be handled adroitly; in these stories they...
...film deals with this loss largely through indirection, and it gains much eloquence in the understatement. Rather than dwell at length on the frustrated promise of Brico's early career, Antonia shows us Brico at work today. A memorable sequence of shots has Brico coaching a young woman for her piano debut with Brico's symphony, culminating in that debut itself. The young woman strides out on the stage, amid Brico's tears of pride, with the glowing energy of youth for whom all things are still possible. There could be no more moving account of Brico's life than...
...dwell on Nixon's future soon becomes boring, but it is a necessary chore. To assume, as many have, that Nixon is a diseased and disgraced man, incapable of a comeback, will allow him the time and tolerance to make such a comeback. If he succeeds--if in five years he is the Republicans' next Alf Landon, the nation's next Averill Harriman, the world's next U Thant--Watergate and all of its revelations and investigations will have accomplished little...
Finally we come to dwell on what should be an insignificant point--a simple matter of common courtesy. You, Mr. Bok, occupying the president's chair, are responsible for being aware of the subtleties of protocol. Is it more than chance that you neglected to place a phone call to the chairman of the Afro-American Studies Department before announcing the appointments to the advisory board? Do you normally cause chairpeople of University departments to find out about decisions of such magnitude through a newspaper? That is what you did in the case of the Afro-American Studies Department...
...particularly instructive to dwell on the ludicrousness of Ford's attempts to justify America's insidious role in toppling the Allende government and creating the present terrorist regime. The facts speak for themselves, and as more become available through Congressional hearings and investigative journalism, we can hope Americans will listen...