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...feel that this implication may not be so much a malicious attempt to malign an Afro-American protest movement as a poorly conceived article stemming from gross ignorance about the movement. Since Malcolm X, a militant Muslim leader, has openly declared that Lincoln's book is a fair representation of his movement and since Lincoln has almost singlehandedly tried to bring the truth about the Muslims to the American public in the face of bitter attacks against the Muslims in white newspapers, Negro newspapers, Time, and now the CRIMSON, there would be no reason for the movement to prevent Lincoln...
...Newspapers at All!" But if Hearst the man defies understanding, his influence on journalism can be measured with micrometer accuracy. It was heavy, lasting, and often malign. The conclusion is unavoidable, and Swanberg, for all his book's devotion to impartiality, draws it again and again. "Considerations of taste in journalism didn't disturb him," the biographer reports. "He had long since decided that the masses had no time or training for such a luxury as taste, and could be reached and molded most effeclively by the noise, sensation and repetition which he liked himself." The Hearst-papers...
...esthetic argy-bargy, One-Eyed Jacks turns out to be just a big, slick, commercial horse opera. The film, to be sure, is meticulously produced, directed, acted and "dited, and it is often startlingly beautiful to see-there is a sequence, photographed in Death Valley, that rivals in pure malign geology the finest frames of Sergei Eisenstein's Thunder over Mexico. Nevertheless, many spectators will wish that a little less of the beauty had been created by God and a little more by Brando, and others may realize that, if it were less pretentious. Jacks would be easier...
Besides fatty obstructions, reported Tulane University's Dr. Homer D. Kirgis in San Francisco, the Circle of Willis can also be afflicted by a kind of malign predestination. Some people are candidates for certain types of strokes as a result of what happened-or didn't happen-before they were born. The human fetus goes through a phase in which the internal carotid artery on each side feeds into three branch arteries and supplies most of the blood to its hemisphere of the brain...
Then, though he himself is a distinguished Milanese businessman, Merzagora also threw in a blunt word of warning about the malign influence exercised on Italy's government by the nation's great capitalists and its huge government corporations, which have steadily expanded since Fascist days. Said he: "An atmosphere of corruption weighs on Italian political life, polluted by speculation and unlawful financial activities . . . If Italy does not soon rediscover the joys of political honesty, very sad prospects lie before...