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...various reviewers who pop up every ten years or so to re-examine Alcott seem to be caught in this disgruntled nostalgia syndrome. In 1924, one disappointed woman on the New Republic wrote that the only reason little girls continued to read Alcott was that it was pap and therefore bad for them: "Could any but pernicious influence hold such a fascination for so long?" she wrote...
Anthony Burgess is undoubtedly a genius. If it weren't for Christopher Plummer's nearly flawless performance and the percise, well-conceived staging of director Michael Kidd, Burgess might have succeeded in turning Edmond Rostand's intelligent play into the sentimental pap Cyrano de Bergerac clearly wasn't. Cyrano the new musical running three weeks in Boston before its Broadway debut, muffles the impact of the original play...
...Obviously there is no way that a government can judge licensees of communications media without being censorial. Such control is untenable in any supposedly free society. It is a far. far better thing to let the public see or hear pap or a hundred divergent ideas or opinions or reports than a hundred identical, controlled or partially controlled handouts...
...tableau seemed gruesomely familiar: the flags and fustian, the candidate prowing through crowds attended by hard-eyed men not quite in control, the people reaching out to touch him. Then, abruptly, the little black gun exploding like a birthday-party favor-pap pap pap pap pap in a smudge of gunsmoke. The candidate would capsize backward, the cameras would catch a wild, stricken frieze as his young wife knelt over him, staining her suit with his blood, and the bodyguards, an instant too late, would wrestle down some strange little drifter with a pistol welded to his hand...
...Neurosurgeons don't know hat they do when they stick electrodes in and burn out the brain," John V. Walsh, doctorate student of physiology at the Med School and one of 40 PAP members at the meeting said. "Psychos surgery cripples people, and we are just beginning to see the potential for very alarming political implications," he added...