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What attacks Generals fatally and finally is neither its cliché-ridden script nor its miscast stars, but the gemütlich approach of Director Anatole Litvak. The slick editing and the bright, bold colors seem less to polish the picture than to varnish it, and they cannot cover the film's faults. The waifs of German-occupied Warsaw are too plump and well padded, the armies seem too clean and well mannered. And the officers are too self-consciously symbolic of Germany's decadence and decency, grossness and grace. Somewhere beneath it all is a plausible plot...
...with virtue," argues Fulbright. It "tends also to take itself for omnipotence." In its attempt to "spread the gospel of democracy," he suggests, the U.S. stands in danger of overextending itself. Central to America's messianic urge is "a national mythology, cultivated in Fourth of July speeches and slick publications, which holds that we are a revolutionary society, that ours was the 'true' revolution which ought to be an inspiration for every revolutionary movement in the world." Quite the contrary is true, maintains Fulbright. America is actually an "un-revolutionary society." It fails totally to show "empathy...
...good golf course -and few of them apparently agree with famed Architect Robert Trent Jones, who designed Spyglass Hill, the third course on which last week's Crosby was played. There were all sorts of complaints: Spyglass was "too long" (at 6,972 yds.); its greens were "too slick"; its fairways were "too heavy." For Jack, it was too frustrating. He might be able to reach Spyglass's par-five greens in two booming shots, but that involved a certain risk: all but one of the greens was protected by a tiny pond. For a while, he played...
Ramparts is slick enough to lure the unwary and bedazzled reader into accepting flimflam as fact. After boasting that the January issue would "document" that a million Vietnamese children had been killed or wounded in the war, it produced a mere juggling of highly dubious statistics and a collection of very touching pictures, some of which could have been taken in any distressed country. To drive the point home, the magazine recruited Dr. Benjamin Spock to write an emotional preface to the article. The doctor did not go to Viet Nam. In writing the preface, all that he knew...
...planners do not, for whatever reason, provide for themselves, continued Galbraith, the state comes through "a little too miraculously." When more technocrats are needed, government steps up educational spending. The state also provides demand for the "more risky technology," such as the SST and other "misfortunes." Antitrust is a slick "charade," killing unimportant mergers but not touching established giants...