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...full house (out of nine dates). Watson is not one of the bigger college rinks, but for some reason--be it Harvard sports spectator apathy, the long cold walk across the Larz Anderson Bridge, or the departure of Gene Kinasewich and Eastern supremacy it is also one of the emptiest. The average attendance last year was less than a thousand, and this year it is even lower...
...some 80 young G.O.P. intellectuals, mostly from academic circles, who aspire, as one leader describes it. "to be a link between the ivory-tower group and the people ringing doorbells." In a recently issued report, the society said that the Republican presidential campaign was "one of the dullest, emptiest, lowest-level campaigns in the history of American presidential politics. The whole cast of the Republican effort was too often amateurish, almost never profound, occasionally tasteless, and almost always ineffective...
...disenchanted novel, but if Gunner Asch occasionally shows contempt for Americans both as administrators and fighting men, it is nothing compared to his virulent shame for his own people, who have, he says, "the biggest words, the loudest cries, the most willing hands, the most trusting hearts and the emptiest brains! God save us Germans from ourselves, a race of natural suicides...
Secretary Dulles' resolutions last night have been no more help than the President's calming reassurances. Certainly, the Israelis must return to Israel and fire must cease. But the threat that the General Assembly will stay in session until these things occur is the emptiest one since Chiang Kai-shek intimated that he might reconquer the Chinese mainland...
Also present: Richard Greene and Jeanne Grain as Lord and Lady Windermere, and Martita (Great Expectations) Hunt as the malicious Duchess of Berwick. Conspicuously absent in this Otto Preminger-directed revival: the sparkling style, pace and timing that made Wilde's plays amusing even at their emptiest...