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...Constant Wife, Bergman is Constance Middleton, an amiable, idle woman who plays hostess to life in a well-appointed drawing room. Her husband John (Jack Gwillim) is a prosperous Harley Street surgeon who is having an affair with Constance's best friend, a blonde married flibbertigibbet. Omniscient as Sherlock Holmes and calmative as Candida, Constance knows all about it and does not wish to be told. But friends will tell...
...Harry Middleton Director...
...twin victories assured both Radcliffe crews of the top seedings in next week's Eastern Sprints Championships at Middleton, Conn. If Radcliffe wins that race, it will then go on to the national championships in California...
...brief, perceptive introduction, Middleton places Stone in the tradition of 18th century English pamphleteer William Cobbett. Like Cobbett, Stone combines a trenchant critique of existing conditions with a nostalgic vision of his country in which the nation was true to its ideals. Middleton writes, "Few people contrive to remain faithful to the vision proffered by the very forces which are busy betraying it," and Stone is most remarkable because his "devotion to the liberal vision and to America has never allowed him to pull his punches...
Indeed, one could hardly ask more of Stone. It is true that his vision of politics springs from often contradictory roots, that he is, as Middleton says, seeking a marriage of Marx and Milton. It is even true now that the left has come out of hiding, extending a supportive hand to Stone, that the criticism Stone provides has become "respectable." But Stone's steadfast insistence on keeping both eyes open with regard to his country, the world, and himself represents the finest impulse of critical thought, the most important prerequisite to serious political writing in journalism or philosophy...