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...remakes but Max Schreek, as the vampire, doesn't approach Bela Lugosi, Petrified Forest. Robert Sherwood's broadway hit about innocent people held captive by a futhless gang at a desert diner was transferred to the screen with little visual imagination, but retained its fine performances by idealist Leslie Howard, romantic Bette Davis, and killer Humphrey Bogart in his first major role, 1936. Key Largo, Maxwell Anderson's mediocre play about innocent people held captive by a ruthless gang at a Florida hotel is a showpiece for John Huston's direction of a star-studded cast: Bogart and Bacall, Claire...
...Owners and Union, the National Association of Theater Owners and the Mass. cable operators) realized what practical form and direction the Commission's power could take. The Commission does not now--nor will it probably ever--have the power to rule on content and usage by fiat, as the idealist would have it do. While the industry remains small and barely manageable, the Commission has a chance to force a franchise set-up which will make the cable accessible to the public rather than the special interests...
...given the temper of the times, Clumly seems bound for a caricature pig-of-the-week award, or else a New Centurion's badge for meritorious service. Instead, Gardner pits poor old Clumly against the Sunlight Man, a brilliant existential philosopher, French horn player, gadfly, madman, magician, murderer, idealist and Shavian exponent of Babylonian religion and the new consciousness. But when the smoke and the rhetoric and some cadavers have been cleared away, there stands Clumly (much humbled and wiser) as, by God, some kind of confused, committed, ignorant, rumpled, preposterous champion of Western culture...
...land. Now they want them to go to college." After a five-year study of the generation gap, Rosner concluded that while older members remain strongly committed to kibbutz ideology, doctrinal ties have loosened among youth. As Economic Administrator Tal puts it: "My father was an idealist. It did not matter to him what he did so long as it was of benefit to the Jewish nation. But whatever I do, I do for myself, my family and my home." To rekindle idealism, many collectives now require young people to serve for a year on a newly established kibbutz...
...distaste for the Nixon Administration. As party policy becomes less his cup of tea, one wonders why Riegle continues to drink from it? Why doesn't he "do a John Lindsay?" The answer lies within the Riegle personality. Riegle possesses a singular optimism and fighting instinct. He is an idealist with a profound faith in the individual's capacity to shape his environment...