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...headstrong men of the Renaissance. The process has never stopped: Art Pundit John Ruskin, making a pilgrimage to the ancient refectory of Santa Croce in the 19th Century, found it had become a bustling carpet factory; to view what remained of its frescoes he was obliged to scale a loom. He saw a whole street of Florence, including the quarters of Donatello and Bronzino, torn down to make room for a cheap-jack row of shops devoted to "bijouterie and parfumerie...
Written with some pungent dialogue and played as if it really mattered, the movie manages to keep its hokum fairly lively. Joan's fans will be glad to find that, for all her suffering, the wages of sin never loom quite as large as the dividends. They may also glean some thrill from the script's implied message: a woman's decision to walk out on a grubby home and poor provider is virtually an inalienable right...
Since The Struggle for the World, the West has reluctantly climbed from the misty valley of ineffectual good will to the bleak but clearer plateau of the cold war. But on the new terrain loom the same old dangers of complacency ("We are winning the cold war"), inertia ("Wait for the dust to settle") and false security ("They'll never match our atomic stockpile"). With a combination of cold logic and hot passion that burns like dry ice, Burnham tries hard to arouse the free world to full realism and resolution. Burnham's argument...
...Communists, numerically weak and partially outlawed, are now promoting underground terror and sabotage, agitating even in the jails where Nehru and his Congress comrades once languished. On the far right loom the Hindu chauvinists, the Hindu Mahasabha. Beside them, noisier, more militant and dangerous, are the R.S.S. (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh-literally, Organization for Service of the Nation). They spawned Gandhi's assassin; they could still undo the communal peace so painfully...
...Against. Against the formidable Taft, who had had his hand in virtually every important piece of domestic legislation acted on by the 80th and 81st Congresses, none of these possible Democratic candidates appeared to loom very large. But the opposition recalled how Taft had barely squeaked through against William Pickrel, a comparatively unknown Dayton lawyer, in 1944. Pickrel had faithfully echoed the policies of F.D.R. Since then Taft had made enemies by his astringent honesty, had probably lost some friends by doggedly following his conscience. The anti-Taft forces counted on a majority of Ohioans voting not for somebody...