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Perhaps his greatest conflict is between his intellect and his show-biz passion for a commercially successful program. He says: "I always feel torn between viewers who call or write and say they're so grateful to be able to switch away from yakking actresses and the necessity of having the yakking starlets for the ratings. It would be an awful lot easier to just not give a damn. It's such a drag. I sometimes wish I had made a clear decision that I was going to be strictly commercial or that I was going to provide a radical...
...warrant. He has none of the pedigreed arrogance of his predecessors, and when he likes, he exudes a personal charm and warmth that have struck immense sympathy among those who associate with him. Even those who have left his staff over policy decisions are quick to defend his intellect and his motivations. And if personality traits do not redeem bad decisions and repugnant policies, they do a great deal to make them more understandable; for at the top crust of Washington policy-making, it is the impact of decisive personalities-not that of impressive intellect-which ultimately spurs the winning...
...does not really lecture; he preaches. He aims primarily at the spirit as opposed to the intellect or the emotions. There's a strain of the old-fashioned Baptist wailer in him, yet it has been disciplined so that he is never out of control. His speech is well-modulated and understated without lending the impression that he is holding anything back. His high regard for Elijah Muhammad is well-evident in his lecture style without becoming an affectation. He presents himself as Ali, and Elijah Muhammad is an integral component of that identity...
Appropriately the ruling upheld one of the most impressive members of the Southern federal judiciary. James Bryan McMillan, 54, looks and is the very model of a gracious Southern intellect. A North Carolina farmer's son, he was class of '40 at Harvard Law School, returned to his home state to set up a busy general-litigation practice, and in 1968 became one of Lyndon Johnson's last judicial appointees. Within a year, his duties forced him to confront the desegregating of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg County school district. After studying the facts, Judge McMillan decided...
...occultivated consists of stares loaded with blanks. Attenborough is an echo of the project: empty smugness, satisfaction without self. Only Ian Holm, as the passive hero, seems to grasp the thematic apperception: modern man and his society are in a schizoid clash where and brain, instinct and intellect, struggle for primacy. He alone defines ambiguity in the loftiest sense. Clement & Co. founder in the lowest...