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...York Senator Jacob Javits. No one really knows what Nixon's view of history is, what he would like the historians to say about him. Is the real Richard Nixon the statesman who opened new worlds with his missions to Peking and Moscow, or is he the shrill and narrow partisan of the 1970 congressional campaign? There are those who argue that the President suppressed some of his more conservative convictions during his first term because they were not politically palatable. So he might be tougher, and he might also settle some old scores. Asserts one Republican: "Having prevailed...
...express train. This startles those who learned their Bach straight, but Newman conquers the doubters with sheer personal conviction. There is something reminiscent of Schweitzer in the way Newman's intellectual and religious philosophy, Zen, permeates his music making and mesmerizes his youthful audiences. Even on the shrill organ at Philharmonic Hall, which at top volume sounds for all the world like a herd of angry Buicks, Newman is enormously compelling...
...Republicans will be moving just as energetically as the McGovern forc es to marshal volunteers for similar get-out-the-vote drives. They will use their ample funding to dominate television and print appeals. Nixon is expected to wage a relatively dignified, "I am the President" campaign, avoiding the shrill law-and-order pitch that backfired in the 1970 congressional elections. He could come across as both more stable and wiser than McGovern...
...movie is as shrill and dense as its heroine and, incidentally, is casually vicious toward Puerto Ricans, who are mostly portrayed as primitives who are prey to ghastly superstition and threatening to high-toned women. Director Waris Hussein is, from the evidence of this movie, unclear about the difference between suspense and brutality. For some heavy atmospherics, he has Norah's apartment festooned with African masks. For shock he lingers lovingly over close-ups of newly decapitated heads. Whenever he needs some tension, he brings on Actor Perry King to snarl, suggest acts of elaborate sadism and terrify...
They were legion. Many of the area's senior citizens seemed convinced that radical youths would descend upon their sunny fastness and murder them in their beds. Before the meeting, Oliver Bright, president of the Greater Miami Crime Commission, issued a somewhat shrill statement claiming that the area faces a grave "crime crisis" if Miami Beach is host to back-to-back national political conventions. The statement said in part: "The likelihood of 100,000 or more militants, demonstrators and hippies camping on the beach, in the parks and on the streets for six weeks could be disastrous...