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...next four years. It denies Diem's demand to be allowed to dissolve the National Assembly at will-but provides him with a strong executive government at the expense of the legislative and judicial branches (following the U.S. more than the French model). The constitution's chief flaw, by Western standards: lack of provision for habeas corpus...
...London's Old Vic, who took over early this year from Director Tyrone Guthrie. Guthrie and other founders of the festival, fearing that Canadian cultural development was being overwhelmed by U.S. influences,* hoped to make Stratford a distinctively Canadian theater. But new Director Langham detected a flaw in their approach: How could Canada claim Stratford as a national theater unless the country's French-speaking population was represented...
This is almost a great movie; Peck's portrayal of Ahab is virtually all that's wrong with it. The flaw is a considerable one, however, since an impassive, insipid Ahab robs Melville's story of its hottest fire and its deepest meaning. Peck is just utterly miscast. For one thing, he is too young, giving no impression whatever of having seen "forty years and one thousand lowerings" on whaling ships. His bland face has nothing of the torn, tortured, gnawed-at, fiery look that Ahab should have. Rather, as he paces the Pequod's deck, his long strides, suspenders...
They would and did, and British intelligence pulled off what was probably the major espionage coup of World War II. Based on the 1954 book by Ewen Montagu (TIME, Feb. 1, 1954), who masterminded the actual hoax, the film is largely faithful to its engrossing true story. Its chief flaw is some romantic embroidery concerning Gloria Grahame, who is done a bad turn both by the scriptwriter and the makeup man (she often looks as if she had been doused in oil for a Channel swim). An extra helping of thrills was also tacked on to make the Nazis seem...
...first and most serious flaw in this simple scheme is that it would establish the state amateur here. Such a program, which we decry in communist countries, has no place in a free society, for it implies a continuing obligation on the part of all athletes to perform for their country...