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...spurious. There was no room in American journalism for a famous reporter who did not believe that truth changed with every committee hearing or State Department White Paper. Stone refused to be silenced: he took his $3500 severance pay and a Compass subscription list and set about creating a one-man weekly, with his wife, Esther, as his business staff...
...only five votes. At least seven Politburo members are implacably opposed to granting greater governmental authority to Brezhnev to go along with his party leadership; to do so would be to scrap the collective leadership system that was instituted after Khrushchev's ouster as a safeguard against one-man dictatorship...
Perhaps no good artist is wholly forgotten, but partial eclipses happen all the time. One shadowed Vuillard, who, between his birth in 1868 and his death in 1940, became one of the most respected names in French art. The respect, however, turned into the kind that tails off into a cough and a pause. No doubt Vuillard's own modesty contributed to the situation; thus between 1912 and 1938, the years when the big reputations were consolidating, he never had a one-man show in Paris. So it happened that Vuillard was tagged as a "minor master" and left...
Thus went Stanley Kramer. That night, he represented not only the ludicrous aspects of Hollywood deep-think, but the frame of mind needed to outjob mainstream Hollywood product. All his films have the built-in sentimentality evidenced by his one-man, one-"feeling" statements, and this negates any biting commentary he ever wishes to make. Most men are basically good, says Kramer's films; their political and social ills are shallow compared to the potential of their 'untapped depths of human understanding'; if you get a Negro and a cracker on the same side of a chase, they'll learn...
...pressures that drove Bullock away will still be present. Vinton's problem since February has been typical of some 2,000 rural counties and towns now without doctors, just as Bullock's burden was representative of that borne by thousands of physicians who struggle to maintain one-man country practices...