Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most intelligent suspense movie of 1965, he candled the head of an aging agent and found all the sickness of the century inside. In Call for the Dead, an early le Carre thriller that has now been made into an entertaining but less original film, he calls in another sad old spy to define the meaning of treason in our time...
...sad thing is not that this project floundered-because of PBH's own bureaucratic tangles-but that it was needed in the first place. Faculty members, many of whom live in the city, have apparently remained oblivious to the Belt and its implications for Cambridge. There has hardly been a stir of protest, though such a stir-had it come early enough and had it been large enough-might have bolstered considerably the campaign against the highway. It might still do some good, but most Faculty members apparently care little that the expressway may go through the center of Central...
Such an old warrior is Malcolm Muggeridge [Jan. 6]. "Compulsive readability" he has indeed, but deeper yet, the reader senses a whole man, responding to the falseness, betrayal and insatiety (to use Philip Wylie's expression) of much of modern life. It will be sad if Muggeridge ever rebounds all the way over to the tight little camp of religious orthodoxy. Understandable, but sad. For then free men might lose a vigorous spokesman, standing in the unaffrightable position of Emerson's thinking man, sending out his shafts wherever merited...
...ailing American Motors Corp., Model Year 1967 was bound to be a year of change-if not in the company's sad sales record, then in its Detroit executive suite. Having spent $60 million on restyling, beleaguered President Roy Abernethy, 60, all but abandoned the head office for the hustings to drum up dealer interest in the new models. In Detroit, A.M.C. Chairman and No. 1 Stockholder Robert B. Evans, 60, settled back to watch the progress on his own pledge to "turn this company around...
...tells the sad sweet story of Daphnis and of Chloe...