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Nixon makes speeches that are longer and more leisurely-but no marathons. To a standard, pretested speech, Nixon adds a few fresh, homey touches and local references, culled from his information-crammed notebooks on every campaign stop. He bears down heavily on patriotism, and, growing solemn, flatters his audiences by talking seriously to them. One favorite technique is to read a letter from a local partisan. In a Flint, Mich, parking lot last week, the letter was from Linda McGrain, 13, who wanted one of the Nixon family's new kittens. She would get her wish, said Nixon with...
Barker writes of his African education, and of the shy, proud, solemn Zulus who taught him, with compassion, humor and a certain sense of shame. He is no revolutionary, but nonetheless shares, with Novelist Alan Paton and the crusading Anglican priest Trevor Huddleston, a searing hatred of apartheid and its works. Barker's own hospital community was, and still is, racially integrated-not to satisfy any liberal belief, he says, but simply because it is natural: in so small a social organism, survival depends upon each man's becoming a good neighbor to the man next...
...barrier between the sexes in India is no longer the formidable fence it used to be. Last week in Agra-where India's two most famous lovers, the Mogul Emperor Shah Jehan and his queen, lie buried under the Taj Mahal-the Indian Youth Association held a solemn seminar about a new kind of problem: the sidewalk dalliance that Indian youth calls "Eve-teasing...
...Painter (Litfle Movies), an extremely funny 15-minute film, may be taken as a solemn leg-pull of the recent vogue for dribble-and-splotch painters, those athletic canvas-coverers whose style owes less to Van Gogh's brush technique than to Stan Laurel's custard pie stance. Or it may be taken as an explicit set of instructions for getting rich...
...Apartment. Producer-Director Billy Wilder's comedy about the rise of an organizational rogue (Jack Lemmon) who lends his apartment to his trysting bosses is both deftly funny and occasionally-ironically-solemn...