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...Communist government of Portuguese Premier Vasco dos Santos Gonçalves lurched closer to collapse last week (see THE WORLD), the general paused to heap invective on an unexpected enemy. "Certain organs of the Portuguese press are today bordering on the near obscene," Gonçalves roared at an audience in a high school gymnasium near Lisbon. "Their looseness with freedom impairs freedom of the press." That might seem an odd complaint from a man heading a regime that has permitted Communist-dominated unions to gag nearly all of the nation's newspapers and every television and radio station...
...KNOW whose fantasy this is--maybe Hunter's--but it's hard to believe that a hierarchical vision of literary activity can explain can explain much about Hemingway's inner life, It implies that writing is a technique designed only to drag one to the top of some quantifiable heap. The writing itself is a means to an end rather than a way of working our personal conflicts, fighting fear or seeking satisfaction. And Hemingway wasn't Jackie Susann...
...SCENES are such good vaudeville that they would have worked anywhere. Yet Nichols based too much of the film's appeal on this kind of repetitive slapstick--where people slam into walls and sharp objects without pain, mug elaborately, and heap abuse on each other without offense--that the Three Stooges did much better. It's good textbook vaudeville but not good comedy...
Philadelphia alumni on the whole are a wealthy group by national standards, and when it comes to Harvard fund-raising efforts they have always been near the top of the heap. Mason Furnald '40, associate director of the Harvard College Fund, points out that last year the 1100 Philadelphia alumni gave over $67,000 to the Fund as compared to $43,000 for Los Angeles's 1429 and $79,000 from San Francisco's 1700. "They are right in there," Furnald says, "and on the whole they are a very loyal and generous contingent of alumni...
...BEEN a bad year for the classics of twentieth century American literature. Following in the tradition of the shoddy treatment given Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, director John Schlesinger has successfully denuded Nathaniel West's The Day of the Locusts of most of its brilliance, leaving behind a heap of gaudy celluloid...