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Federal farm programs, said the President, are "drifting into a chaotic state, piling up surpluses, penalizing efficiency, rewarding inertia." Very true. But then the President went on to prescribe a big dose of the same kinds of programs: direct and indirect subsidies, plus entangling controls to cope with the surpluses that the subsidies help to create. If carried out, the Kennedy proposals would even extend subsidies and controls to farm products-most fruits, vegetables and livestock-that are now normally outside the farm policy mess...
With $40,000 plus Cassavetes' sensitive and indirect direction, the actors improvised a sincere, original, powerful film. Always crude, often trite, sometimes even phony, this rackety little race opera is nevertheless loaded, like a truck full of oxygen cylinders, with huge, impounded energies...
...President Kennedy has pointed out, the Constitution may pose a slight obstacle to the subsidization the cardinals desire. Some jurists, however, believe that the First Amendment can be interpreted to allow aid to parochial schools, since it is "indirect" rather "direct" assistance to religion. At any rate, the cardinals have come up with a legal dodge: instead of direct grants, they want long-term, low-interest loans. Whether or not the Supreme Court would accept such a device is a moot point...
Zink, who openly hopes to be considered "the Paul Revere of our age," noted some of the difficulties the peace walkers had encountered during the first part of their trip. He spoke especially of townie hecklers, police interference, and occasional indirect threats by the American Legion...
...that Copland's works of the early '30's "resemble nothing so much as steel cranes, bridges and the frame of skyscrapers." But although direct quotation of jazz and folk songs find little place in these pieces, both influences are now assimilated into his style and occur in an indirect fashion...