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That night, out of Fort Worth, came a blast from the opposing camp. In a nationally televised speech, old (72) Sam Rayburn, Democratic leader of the House, said the way to save the U.S. is to elect a Democratic Congress on Nov. 2. The Republican Administration is "inept" and its Congress "as forward-looking as yesterday," he charged. He flatly predicted that the Democrats would win both the Senate and the House...
Both politics and mountain climbing seemed unlikely pursuits for a man like De Gasperi. Tall and lanky, he was plagued by bad health. He was an inept organizer, a rambling, self-conscious speaker. He had chilly, blue eyes and a wide mouth that even in repose seemed compressed in grim disapproval. But underneath, De Gasperi had a mountain man's flint-hard resolution and a devout Christian's sense of integrity. These qualities made him the greatest man in postwar Italy and helped him revive a nation that had almost died from an overdose of political bombast...
Folly to be Wise could just well have left the question unanswered, since any seriousness seems out of place amidst Sim and his friends. An inept bit of philosophy, that love is a matter for nature and not the experts, sums up the title, and also manages to put an end to the movie. This sentiment, however, is only a minor flaw, hardly capable of tarnishing Mr. Sim and his latest film...
...zanne (1839-1906) painted pictures that were meticulous approximations of what he saw in nature; most of his contemporary critics thought them clumsy (in fact they were the reverse) and looked on Cézanne as inept or else as something of a wild man. But he had great respect for the classical tradition. Once he said that his goal was to paint something "solid and durable like the art of the museums." In the Clockmaker, painted at the height of his powers, he turned out a picture that is as solid and durable as anything done in the last...
...midst, everyone begins saying and doing unexpected things. Lucasta knows about her social facade and hates it. Lady Elizabeth talks seriously and movingly of God; B. Kaghan and Simpkins prove to be mutually sympathetic. Because the author is Eliot we trust that these changes are not a consequence of inept psychology and undertake to alter our conceptions so as to incorporate the new information. If we remain sensitive to the evidence, we must continue to restructure the play throughout the evening and find ourselves at the end with some pieces that still do not fit. Along the way we will...