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...lapsed Marxist, the literature of Communism has largely been professional and confessional, written by insiders. The FBI chief's book belongs to a smaller but useful class of books by those who, concerned with the suppression of Communism, look at it from the outside. Hoover has written a primer-in a sense a how-to-do-them-down-yourself book. It does not claim the philosophic depth of Theodore Draper's The Roots of American Communism (TIME, March 18, 1957), which argued that the party was to some extent a native heresy grafted onto the root stock...
...another western "because it has no Indians and no saloons." What Fury does have sets it prairies apart from other outdoor TV films. Packed with each Saturday morning episode (11 a.m., E.S.T.) is a plain little moral. It may be a homely little philosophical truth or a wholesome primer on civil defense, bicycle safety, wildlife preservation or freedom of the press. Last week Fury's young friends ran into trouble with a predatory cougar because they had not completed their rifle safety course. But faithful as ever, Fury, a . beautiful black stallion, frightened the critter away...
...trying to do too much-a travelogue plus a report of things social, economic, political, religious, anthropological-it did almost nothing well. Instead, it frequently suggested a melange of scrambled lantern slides. James (Tales of the South Pacific) Michener's commentary, delivered in a tired drawl, was repetitive, primer-simple, and studded with long gaps in which the viewer was left without pertinent information about the picture, or even a clue as to its locale. The film was more than half over before Michener got around to mentioning the issue that makes Southeast Asia's present crucial...
...cinematic creator on the strength of a half-dozen pictures that few people have seen. Only two have been generally noticed in the U.S. The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) was considered by most critics "an experimental film," but it has since served serious moviemakers as an invaluable primer on the uses of the closeup. Day of Wrath (1948) was a tenebrous expatiation on the theme of Jeremiah ("The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked"), and it roused Broadway critics to such a passion of love-hate that it ran for 13 weeks at a Manhattan...
...Monsanto Chemical Co. "to help penetrate the wall that separates the man in the laboratory from the rest of us." The opening show put the viewer's eye to microscopes that revealed viruses and, through time-lapse photography, a human cell mushrooming with cancer. It also presented a primer on oceanography and, in the best segment, an exclusive filmed report of Air Force Major David Simons' 20-mile balloon ascent, capturing some of the suspense and loneliness of his mission. The show made a promising start in a major TV project, though its promise somewhat outstripped its performance...