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BRECHT: But none the less Heinrich, lieber Heinrich it is an honor when they do your work, wherever, whenever. As for however, why that McBain youth meant no harm in adapting your Master Builder. He only meant, no doubt, to give the idiom a more modern ring, and to snip away that overgrowth of symbols. There are such a lot of symbols in the play, Heinrich...
...justification for junior generals was always mysterious--they seemed at best a mechanical device for cutting down the number of seniors writing theses. The exams could have weakened junior tutorial, but with rumors of their impending abolition in the air, they probably did little harm this year as most tutors ignored them...
...best archaic, at worst ludicrous. When, after 37 years as poet laureate, John Masefield died last May, many Britons thought that the job should be abolished. Even London's Times, which occasionally prints official poems, only halfheartedly urged that the post be filled because "it does no harm and may, who knows, do good...
Making a three-day sweep from Danang to the Delta, Michigan's Governor George Romney toured Viet Nam last week to learn more about the war, cheer the troops and gain some public exposure that 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...
...small-town America of con-men and disillusioned cops, with much of the action set in greasy spoons, cars, and hotel lobbies. Preminger must feel that his later films are larger; actually they are only longer and better designed: the best passages in The Cardinal deal with abortion, In Harm's Way with seduction and promiscuity, and Bunny Lake Is Missing with moody perversion, all elements with which Preminger has always felt at home. Preminger's characters remain frustrated or trapped, happy endings notwithstanding: we know that the assumed union of the detective and his dream-girl in Laura will...