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...most unusual call to rally round Richard Nixon's upcoming inauguration comes from his old Democratic adversary Hubert Humphrey. In a 60-second TV spot he made at the request of the President's inaugural committee, Humphrey delivers a nonpartisan plea for American unity-a happy thought that he agreed to pass on before the bombing of North Viet Nam resumed. Humphrey went ahead with the taping despite the raids, but as an aide said curtly: "It's not a policy endorsement...
While they are resigned to losing their plea for women on constitutional grounds, they hope to gather support for an amendment to be introduced at the international's next convention in Houston this fall. The amendment, which would open the fraternity to women, has failed by wide margins in the last two biennial gatherings...
...rather tired format to produce an essay that is sublimely confident of its delights and prejudices. Betjeman loves tiny Saxon churches whose masons "captured holy air and encased it in stone." Noting that some of his illustrations of modern buildings are "cautionary examples," he ends with a plea for the survival of the profession of architecture. "We should wish him well," Betjeman writes of the architect, "for he should be the only bar between us and the human anthill to which we may be reduced." (That sentence is also a plea for the survival of the subjunctive...
Samaras is not the most easily approachable of men. His efforts seem governed by Gide's famous plea, "Do not understand me too quickly." Compared with many other New York artists his age (36), he is almost a hermit. He shuns the art-world circuit, living and working in a cluttered container of a brownstone apartment in Manhattan which, in its contents, resembles one of his own boxes. An ironic reclusiveness directs his talk. Conversations are apt to falter and go brown under that sharp gaze. This is part of a strategy common to Samaras' art as well...
Granted, the film was made to be enjoyable junk, but this reviewer wishes to enter a plea that for once the movie industry make a film biography of a statesman that treats its subject like a human being. The youths of ambitious men like Churchill. Lincoln, and Teddy Roosevelt were often messy affairs, full of manias and self-conflict, and why not treat them as such? Churchill, for instance, never had the smooth self-conception this film imputes to him. In his journals, Churchill's physician, Lord Moran, quotes a conversation with the dying crony Brendan Bracken...