Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tracy and Hepburn, whatever the social benefits of their friendship with Kramer, the creative harvest has been disaster. Always a good actor, Tracy emerged from a post-war recharging period literally the top. In George Cukor's Pat and Mike ('52), he gave the best of a memorable series of comedy performances opposite Hepburn, conclusively reconciling his own considerable presence ("treelike" to extend a comparison of Hepburn's) with acting. Bad Day at Black Rock ('55), though not a great movie, gave Tracy the chance to show off his genius freely and create a hero good for all violent communities...
...Viet Nam. "The Soviet people cannot approve of a policy of developing friendship with the U.S. while American troops kill absolutely innocent people, conduct an illegal war, and seize foreign territories. One hears that it is the prestige of the U.S. that allegedly prevents it from renouncing this war and withdrawing from Viet Nam. But after several years of conducting this inhuman war, can your country say that its prestige has risen one inch? From this war you have gained absolutely nothing, and in the eyes of public opinion you have lost very much. Absolutely nobody can say a good...
...firing five then counter-attacked. Crane countered that "This talk has gone on over the years . . . you can't win in this business." Saying that he did not intend to belabor the point, but felt that "a few things should be straightened out," he defended his friendship with Wasserman as a "purely personal attachment" which predated his entrance into Cambridge politics. Crane recalled how his father--a Cambridge patrolman--had carried the Wasserman's wine (during prohibition) when the Wasserman family moved to a new home...
...would like to bet on it, but there is even an outside chance that City politics might grow a little quieter in the near future. The wranglings of the past two years have taken a toll; more than one long-term friendship has been strained--or snapped. In his inaugural address, Mayor Sullivan said he hoped that his administration would be one of "harmony." Though only a word, it is a word heard more frequently around City Hall these days...
Does Podhoretz ever convince the reader that his story is worth telling? Not really. By paying so much attention to the sociology of himself, he withholds those elements that could have bound reader and writer. He tells of strong feelings, of friendship and feuds, but in the end those experiences only lead to the naive discovery that intelligent people can be hypocrites...