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...perhaps it was that same sense of the dramatic that allowed him to be photographed, during last week's cold weather, sitting by a cot in his City Hall office prepared to stay the night answering phone calls from freezing citizens. Had he waited until he had a surer grasp on his office. White probably could have devised a plan to remove McNamera. It's doubtful that he can do it now: McNamera's friends are on guard. Indeed one White insider says, "It looks to me like McNamera will finish out the four-year term [former Mayor] Collins gave...
...resists the temptation to slip him into the New Left cubbyhole and looks beneath the superficialities of speech and manner, Ferber comes forth as a complex, contradictory blend of the pragmatist and idealist, religionist and radical idealogue. His belief in non-violence is firm. His sense of perspective and grasp of social realities make him an exceptional even atypical, member of the New Left. If the government jails him, he just may have the entire prison organized before he leaves...
...might do him no harm on the home front. He was no stranger to the territory, of course. The last time he ventured into Viet Nam "in South Korea" and later declared that U.S. officials had "brainwashed" him. This time Romney came away convinced that he had "a firm grasp of the situation. I had the background and knowledge to dig in and penetrate the situations and get at the facts that I wanted to know." A somewhat different appraisal came from one top U.S. official in Saigon: "The Governor seemed bent on some kind of political kamikaze or, better...
...subject is still love, the variety of its comic faces and the delusions and dark necessities upon which it feeds. But now the problems are well within the grasp of a marriage counselor. Gone are the Murdochian sexual extravaganzas that only a dash of sly metaphysics kept from degenerating into peep shows. Sex in The Nice and the Good is nearly just that...
Actor-Writers Cook and Moore, who once were half of the wily foursome in Beyond the Fringe, have failed to grasp the basic difference between a four-minute skit and a 107-minute movie. What is worse, their script is padded with imbecile yock lines ("I love Lucifer," or in a conversation about God "But he is English isn't he?"). As a result, the film plays Faust and loose with a grand old theme...