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Thanks to O'Ferrall's direction, there is nothing in Heart of the Matter which does not pertain directly to Scobie's ordeal. He has avoided dramatic effects and mood sequences for their own sake and has concentrated on getting the essentials of a deep and complicated story into a normal-length film. The result is quite remarkable, for althought it seems that there is too much talk and too little action in Heart of the Matter, every conversation is of such pertinency that it cannot help but be gripping. Certainly if there is not much excitement, there...
...single lecture would pertain to the general subject of the Godkin lectures, "The Essentials of Free Government and the Duties of the Citizen." There is no provision in the Godkin endowment which requires that three lectures be delivered...
...there were some interesting circumstances about the death of Moses Jones. In 1952 Sheriff Hill, named as the head of a bootlegging ring, was indicted by a federal grand jury on a charge of "conspiracy to violate the Internal Revenue laws as they pertain to liquor." One of the most important witnesses against Hill was the same Moses Jones, who testified that the sheriff had tried to cut in on his small time, independent bootlegging operation. When the trial ended with a hung jury -ten for conviction and two against-Moses Jones wasted no time in removing himself from Clarke...
...discover that sea." Later, Balboa and his men scrambled down to the sea's edge, stood knee-deep in the salt water, and took "possession corporal and present of these austral seas and lands and coasts and islands with everything annexed to them or which might pertain to them ... in times past, present or to come...
...Chicago in 1927, to inform the Committee how he had earned $5000 in 1942, or to say whether he know William Johnson, the president of four dog tracks in Florida. These questions, together with others, the court stated did not appear on their face or in context "to pertain to the investigation which was being conducted in 1951 into the activities of organized crime in interstate commerce." Accordingly, the trial court should have directed a verdict of acquittal...