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...Billy, Tom Courtenay (The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner] seems the apotheosis of misspent youth. Director John Schlesinger often takes fancy too literally, weighing it down with sets and costumes, and Courtenay's hectic inner life is hilarious all by itself. The movie soars when he tosses an imaginary hand grenade as the ultimate solution of some minor social disgrace. When he lolls around his boss's office practicing a speech of resignation, Courtenay steers an unpredictable course from Churchill imita tions to doubletalk to mere gibberish, and brings off moments of pluperfect screen comedy...
...almost all of Bonn's aid is in the form of loans, not grants, some Germans have inevitably been growling about giveaways. The newsmagazine Der Spiegel ran a series of articles arguing that West Germany is an underdeveloped nation. A German diplomat, echoing complaints in the U.S. about misspent funds that American aid officials have heard since the days of the Marshall Plan, pointed to the $30,000, custom-built Rolls-Royce in which...
...relays of planes zoomed over rooftops, trailing the names of M.S.I, candidates. The heirs of Mussolini reportedly spent more than $3,000,000 during the four-week campaign, but when the votes were counted it was clear that the Missini (the nickname derived from the party initials) had misspent their lire. The Fascist share of the total vote rose slightly from 9.7% in 1960 to 10%; a mere 19,000 new M.S.I, voters (new total: 248,000) were recruited at the expensive rate of about $160 per vote...
...funds; it might merely refuse to grant Harvard any additional money. Secondly, University officials could conceivably be prosecuted for willfully and illegally disbursing government funds. Such a criminal action could tend to obscure publicly the central issues of the dispute. Finally, even if the government did sue to recover misspent funds, a complex financial imbroglio could result, for students who get NDEA funds need pay back only half the loan if they enter teaching. Thus, if the University administered these loans without the oath and were then enjoined to return the funds to the government, full restitution would be necessary...
After a miserable childhood, an unsatisfying stint as a subeditor on a British trade paper (Gas World) and a so-so fling as a repertory actor-manager, John Osborne looked back on his 26 misspent years in anger. When he brooded about his estrangement from his mother and his wife (divorced by him for misconduct last week), he got even angrier. The manners and morals of Britain's middle class drove him to total fury. There was little left for him to do but take his violence to the public. So John Osborne sat down and wrote a play...