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...square observation-the good guys come out ahead in the westerns, the bad guys lose. In the end, as [Chisum] particularly pointed out, even in the old West there was a time when there was no law. But the law eventually came, and the law was important from the standpoint of not only prosecuting the guilty, but also seeing that those who were guilty had a proper trial...
...Hollywood studio system operates like a game of big-stakes roulette. You miss a few, win big on one number and then, as often as not, play it again to disastrous results. Two sequels to successful 20th Century-Fox films demonstrate that from an aesthetic standpoint the whole thing is a sucker's game...
...tended to slip out of national prominence in recent years, as evidenced by their lack of success at the I.R.A. as well as at the Olympic trials, and the fact that Penn traditionally rows less well in June than in May, and it seems fairly obvious, from a competitive standpoint, why Harvard stays away...
George Reedy, who was Lyndon Johnson's press secretary, takes a gloomy view of the inevitability of presidential isolation. In The Twilight of the Presidency, published earlier this year, he writes: "From the President's standpoint, the greatest staff problem is that of maintaining his contact with the world's reality that lies outside the White House walls. Very few have succeeded in doing so. They start their administrations fresh from the political wars, which have a tendency to keep men closely tied to the facts of life, but it is only a matter of time until the White House...
...look at everything from a Christian standpoint here." Harrison said. "But that doesn't mean we don't run regular educational programs. We just use as our starting point the doctrines of the Scriptures-the Virgin Birth, the revealed word of God, and so forth...