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...agonizing task of building a healthy program cannot be done overnight, nor can it be accomplished without damaging the people responsible for the present one. It would be foolish however, to even consider the current program righting itself without major changes, for as I have pointed out, it is doomed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: To the Sports Editor: | 3/10/1973 | See Source »

...hard to think of Debbie Reynolds as Charlotte, but remember, we only hear her voice. She has the same strong, clear, warm tones that Charlotte had, so I must applaud the choice. Henry Gibson sounds just as slow and foolish as Wilbur himself. Paul Lynde portrays me. I understand he has a weekly television show, and he certainly is funny. I have always thought, however, that I sounded much more like Laurence Olivier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNICATIONS: Communication Received | 3/5/1973 | See Source »

TRAVELS WITH MY AUNT is a very foolish, fond old movie. Written by an aging Graham Greene and directed by an aged George Kukor, it is altogether an old man's work--an embrace of a glamorous era long dead, a last grand grinning caper through it. Whether it lays claims to any purpose beyond sheer diversion is a mystery, and Greene's novel lacks a clue...

Author: By Emily Fisher, | Title: An Old Man's Daydreams | 1/24/1973 | See Source »

...European man," respected at home as the faithful trustee of Gaullist order and stability, backed in the National Assembly by a lopsided 274-seat majority, the French President seemed infinitely less vulnerable than his peers in Bonn, certainly, and even London. "If we don't do anything foolish," Pompidou's ministers were saying, "we will stay in power for another 30 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Pompidou on the Run | 1/22/1973 | See Source »

...larger service-oriented population, also politicians who are not afraid to battle for real ideas. McGovern, for whom I voted is not necessarily a stronger man, but in some ways he had a larger vision. He was willing to be innovative." Suddenly he says thoughtfully, "I'm being foolish. I can afford to be idealistic, I suppose...

Author: By Celia B. Betsky, | Title: Bernard Malamud: A Writer's Experience | 1/22/1973 | See Source »

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