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Died. Laurence Harvey, 45, veteran of more than 60 films, who first won fame in America as Joe Lampton, the ambitious cad in Room at the Top (1958); of cancer; in London. Harvey played handsome, heartless lady-killers in such hits as Butterfield 8 and Darling, and was the brainwashed political assassin of The Manchurian Candidate...
...sclerotic pieties. Few would argue that the Soviet Union could never be tempted into acting out her ancient ambitions, or that U.S. military strength and civil concord are not important to keeping the peace and pre serving the Constitution. But Drury finished his novel in February-and history, that heartless bitch, has stood him up again, with the Watergate investigations and the Agnew scandal. Characters more fascinating, events more crowded, a conspiracy against the Constitution far more plausible than any thing Drury has invented. It is not Drury's country that is a helpless giant, after...
...atrocities among ground troops, but at the top of the command chain the criminal venture was planned by Harvard men--McGeorge Bundy, former dean of the Faculty, Robert MacNamara, a graduate of the Business School, and later Henry A. Kissinger '50, a former professor of Government. Do we want heartless war criminals like Bundy and Kissinger anywhere in the army...
...comfort to an anxious family, I have put my arm around a mother, wife or husband as they sobbed on my shoulder, and then "pulled the plug." It is not easy. It also is not easy to awaken in the morning to find the newspapers rasping away at heartless, moneygrubbing doctors...
...delighted response that it elicited from Loeb Ex audiences last weekend challenge that ponderous view of art. A farcical confection, the play is concocted solely with equal parts elan and elegance levened with tart social witticisms. George Bernard Shaw perceived, with some astuteness, that the resulting delicacy is rather "heartless" because it lacks proximity to emotion. But to an audience suffering from the true heartlessness of reading period, the comedy is appetizing sustenance...