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...more flagrant example of self-consciousness was Frank Lovejoy's delivery of the title line in Retreat, Hell. Interrupting a flow of tepid badinage, the camera came in for a closeup of Lovejoy's most noble expression while the action stopped and he said his line, continuing: "we're just advancing in another direction." This over, the tedium picked up again as though never interrupted...
...support of a group of 23 top businessmen, labor leaders and educators, e.g., Publisher John Cowles (Des Moines Register & Tribune), Movie Producer Samuel Goldwyn, Financier Lewis W. Douglas (chairman. Mutual Life of New York). They wired every U.S. Senator (except McCarthy himself) urging a favorable vote "to curb the flagrant abuse of power by Senator McCarthy...
...This flagrant waste of the taxpayer's money has got to be stopped...
...which also has a law under which it could abolish the public-school system. U.S. Senator Richard Russell, contending that the question of segregation should be decided by the legislative rather than the judicial branch of the Government, had his own label for the court's action: "A flagrant abuse of judicial power." Out of Georgia's statehouse came a tirade from Governor Herman Talmadge: "The United States Supreme Court . . . has blatantly ignored all law and precedent . . . and lowered itself to the level of common politics . . . The people of Georgia believe in, adhere to, and will fight...
...Flagrant & Systematic. Was this ruling good law? This week Pundit Walter Lippmann explored the implications of McCarthy's position and Jenkins' ruling. Said Lippmann...