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...Pointless Snipes...
...been needing for a long time," it must realize that this job can be done in no incompetent manner. Of course the President must be criticized; the papers of the country have hung fire far too often. Yet there is no easily perceptible honesty of critical intention in the pointless snipes of (say) the civil rights reports: "Surely we are not to suppose that Kennedy believes in the justice of the segregationist position. But if not, we can only conclude that he is deterred by political considerations. He wants to roll his precious pork-barrels through. Or is the author...
BEACON HILL: Juley Dassin's NEVER ON SUNDAY is not as good as he thinks it is, but it nevertheless must rank as well as one of the ten best foreign films of 1960. Despite an excruciating musical score, a didactic plot, and some rather pointless satire about American do-gooder schnooks, the movie must be admired for its brilliant photography and obvious zestful enjoyment of Grecian peasant life--and, of course, its week-night diversions. Evenings...
When television first barged so rudely onto the U.S. entertainment scene, many radio stations flipped the keys shut on their studio mikes, set their turntables to twirling eternally, hired the disk jockey to titillate the teen-ager with pointless prattle. But there are notable signs that the clatter of the platter is gradually being muted. Its replacement: serious chatter...
Senator John Sherman Cooper gives good reasons for his support of federal aid to education and discusses the various "formulae" for providing it intelligently and without passion. In fact, only two of the program-proposing articles are really disappointing: "Anatomy of a Victory" because it is almost inherently pointless as a post-election-mortem of Ohio, and "An Economic Alternative for the GOP" because, although potentially interesting enough, it only rambles tediously in sketchy recapitulation of the books of Louis Kelso and Mortimer Adler...