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...suggesting that Forman is a conscious innovator in form, or that he will necessarily continue his gleeful negligence of film grammar. No doubt his rough spots could be sanded away by a valedictorian from any of the academics. It doesn't much matter. Through his own flaws or through some lesser soul's corrections, Forman's large soul will continue issuing an uncommonly perceptive love for humankind...
...begin with? They would be pretty bad, that's what. But they would also attract big entertainment-hungry audiences. Last week, after the third round of World Première, a series of special, two-hour TV-movies being filmed by Universal Pictures, NBC was in gleeful possession of at least the No. 2 and 4 ratings among all the movies shown this season-topped only by ABC's incredibly popular rerun of a movie-movie, Bridge on the River Kwai. With five more such originals to follow-at a cost...
Gary Snyder presents an interesting case, interesting perhaps to study in the light of Barber's theories about aggression. Snyder is a charismatic, gleeful, booming-voiced, hyper-energetic Adonis of a man, very sharp-witted, very profound, a long-time student of Zen in Kyoto, and a poet who despite militant political leftism gives the impression of being the best-adjusted man on earth. Yet I don't think he's much of a poet, and I can't help feeling he's perhaps too much of a man, in the sense that Yeats was suggesting (as Barber quotes...
...small-claims court. There, to almost everyone's surprise, Judge Martin Shachat rejected Grouse's plea of accepted and traditional practice, ordered him to pay Morton's bill on the grounds that the letter had clearly and quite legitimately redefined that practice. Morton, of course, was gleeful; Grouse went into shock. Said he: "It could be the doom of public-relations counselors...
Behind Harel's attacks, Mapai Party spokesmen thought they saw the hand of his old boss, David Ben-Gurion, who last year broke with Eshkol and formed the opposition Rafi Party. Gleeful Rafi men expected to pick up some support from disenchanted Mapai members and hoped eventually to unseat Eshkol. Last week they were spreading rumors that Mapai intended to replace Eshkol with either Finance Minister Pinhas Sapir or former Foreign Minister Golda Meir...