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...European partners get so busy with their own noisy spats, shufflings and disappointments that they fail to hear the scuffling on the other side of the Iron Curtain. But last week, in the aftermath of Czechoslovakia's Slansky trial, the scuffling could be plainly heard, and louder than usual...
Meanwhile, the insistent, blatant note of anti-Semitism-masked as a battle against "Zionism" and "Jewish nationalism"-at the Prague trial struck louder & louder reverberations of protest from world Jewry. The Israeli Knesset (Parliament) passed a resolution expressing "outrage." The Knesset's Communists, though plainly disturbed by the goings-on in Prague, swallowed their fears and voted against the resolution...
...louder incidents occurred in the fall of 1951, when one Alfred Vellucci was campaigning for a post on the Cambridge Schools Committee. The strong point in his drive for election was his announced morals crusade, in which he distributed a pamplet called "Arouse Ye Citizens," signing it "Al Vellucci, Father of Six." With a larger brood to guard than most, he was intimately concerned with obscene literature, and asked that cheap and immoral books be banned from stands where children could pick them...
...Language (by Edward Beloin & Henry Garson) boasts a fair enough idea: a posturing, on-the-skids Hollywood star (Uta Hagen) attempting a comeback in a Rome-made art movie. Unfortunately, the audience gets the idea all too soon, and thereafter gets it again & again & again, in louder, lengthier, ever less effective doses. The actress keeps putting on one kind of scene while the Italian director rehearses another, and there are yet other scenes with the husband Miss Hagen is supposed to have divorced but hasn...
...forty years ago . . . . William Howard Taft, and the Republicans haven't changed since then . . . . " But no one was listening; the children shouted and nudged each other. "Here, child, get on your toes and see the President." "Ike, Ike, Ike," screamed a small group. The President frowned, and spoke louder. "I like Harry!" said a little girl, "but I can't hear him." The President stopped. "You kids yellin' so loud ought to think a little." The crowd screamed. "Use your' brains instead of your mouths." They yelled and clapped...