Word: paladins
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...paladin in a turban...
...CASE OF LIBEL, adapted by Henry Denker from Louis (My Life in Court) Nizer's account of the Quentin Reynolds-Westbrook Pegler libel fracas, is tame theater fare, but courtroom drama buffs may relish it, and Van Heflin is a peppery paladin of justice...
...paladin of justice, Van Heflin is an ingratiatingly drawly but volcanically eruptive goodguy, and Larry Gates makes an icy fork-tongued reptile of the man whose politics are somewhat to the right of Genghis Khan. But since the play is rigged for the triumph of good over evil, it is no more intellectually honest than a play that paints the world pitch black. Libel merely caters to an audience's smug self-righteousness, scarcely good growing weather for an examination of moral conscience. Playwright Denker ringingly declares for a responsible free press and due process of taw, which...
nuclear testing; a spectator's cry of "Down with Kennedy" drew lusty echoes.* L. Brent Bozell-Yale classmate ('50) and brother-in-law of conservative National Review Editor William F. Buckley Jr., intellectual paladin of the Right-listed demands for the U.S. to launch a policy of victory over Communism, and each proposal brought an approving roar from the crowd. Let these orders be issued, said Bozell: "To the Joint Chiefs of Staff: Make the necessary preparations for a landing in Havana." "To our commander in Berlin: Tear down the Wall." "To our chief of mission...
...Rather touched" when a British stripling agreed to defend him in a school debate over which of four prominent men should be jettisoned to save a sinking balloon, Billionaire U.S. Oilman J. Paul Getty promptly supplied his paladin with a suggested brief. Unaware that his hypothetical fellow travelers were to be Fidel Castro, British Playwright John Osborne and Philosopher-Demagogue Bertrand Russell, Getty wrote: "I am only 13 stone [182 Ibs.] and therefore probably lighter than the rest. If there are other millionaires there, I'm probably the youngest at 68, so the oldsters should go." Finally came...