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...support this idea, by now stale, of Communism as a surrogate religion, Chayefsky feels free to rewrite the early history of the Russian Revolution in the best tradition of Soviet historiographers. He makes Stalin out to be Lenin's right-hand strongman, which he was not, while also creating the illusion that Stalin was capable of nimble ideological disputes with Lenin. Trotsky (Alvin Epstein) is portrayed as a kind of effete dancing master and relegated to a stage-struck walk-on part in the Revolution, so that no playgoer would ever guess that he was looking...
...opposition Labor Party under Arthur Calwell, 67, charged that 14 years in power have left the Liberals stale and tired, attacked Menzies for failure to spur economic growth. Hard-pressed by his party's left wing, Calwell, who is personally a strong antiCommunist, nevertheless sought to embarrass Menzies by demanding 1) joint control, rather than exclusive U.S. control, of the huge U.S. Navy Communications Center now abuilding on the barren west coast of Australia, 2) a nuclear-free zone in the Southern Hemisphere and 3) recognition of Red China. That, countered Menzies, "would give Peking a smashing victory." Calwell...
Naked Autumn. "People go stale after ten years," says a bored French wife, languishing in the country with her equally bored husband. Such is the ambivalence of married love that the couple's passion has long since turned to hate and to Gallic variations on the Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? theme -their favorite happens to be a form of boudoir bingo that has already alienated the wife's best friend and driven the husband's auto-racing teammate to suicide. This time out, they notice a lissome young schoolteacher. The wife befriends the girl...
...many committeemen believe that pulpit turnover prevents both preachers and congregations from growing stale, and that the present method is the only one compatible with the policy of churches-such as Baptists, Presbyterians and Disciples of Christ-opposed to a strong central authority. Argues New York Lawyer Arad Riggs, a committeeman of the Bronxville Reformed Church: "It brings the leaders to the top. It brings out the best in the ministry and the best in the churches...
That Hunter's faculty emphasizes teaching rather than research creates further difficulties. Many older professors become stale because they spend so much time in the classroom. And the younger professors show little respect for their senior colleagues because they seldom see tangible evidence of continuing scholarship. As one younger teacher explained, "I'm a little afraid of staying around here too long. Almost everyone I know has lost his freshness and enthusiasm." Another faculty member, college, agreed: "Ninety-five per who has since moved to a different cent of my colleagues have been teaching the same course for about...