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...newsman's right to evaluate events is incontestable, and it is not being contested this year. Many observers regard such interpretive reporting as well-nigh indispensable. "Newspapers are beaten in the reporting of the news by radio and television," says Mortimer J. Adler, director of Chicago's Institute for Philosophical Research. "Thus they have become, more and more, journals of opinion...
...this would not have excited the town until an acquaintance of Joe Christmas says that he has always thought Joe was a nigger. That sets off the mob. In his description of Joe's lynching, Faulkner makes clear that vengeance does not expunge guilt, and expiation is nigh to impossible...
...good time was had by all at the South House Master's Ball Saturday night, a situation well nigh unprecedented at Radcliffe College...
Pearson's problem is that the telephone company's image is well-nigh perfect. Its charges are known to be just, equitable and, in any case, virtually incontestable; its poles are tall as trees and much neater; its only enemies are unenlightened woodpeckers, public service commissions, and the parents of teenagers. How satirize such perfection? Pearson does his best by suggesting that company executives are only human when trapped behind filing cabinets with neurotic secretaries, but this is squalid stuff. (How little adultery there was in Shakespeare...
Then Stalin dies. Spring is nigh, and the screen bursts with the flux of a great thaw. Glaciers move. Oppressive ice masses give way to a life-giving socialist sun, and quick as a wink all Russia is awash with sentiment. Such devices sweep Clear Skies right to the edge of a slushy cinematic wasteland. Trick effects multiply with stultifying regularity. The camera, scudding skyward, frequently pauses to record the emotional temperature, ranging from before-the-storm to lo-the-dawn...