Word: successful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Janus Films, which made David and Lisa, gathered the usual cast of unknowns, only with much less success. Tom Aldredge, playing the inept yokel who gets his hand stuck in a Henry Moore statue, takes an overdose of slapstick. Ted Flicker and Buck Henry, the script-writers, preserve the tradition of amateur movies by taking on about five major roles apiece. Neither can act, however. Godfrey Cambridge provides some saving grace as the fire inspector, but then he speaks only ten lines...
...which he attached the repeal proposal to his labor message, there was some talk that the President might not work very hard for its enactment. But those who said that just didn't know their Lyndon Johnson. For one thing, he is immensely proud of his success in getting his programs through Congress, and the record will not be blemished if he can help it. For another, at a time when he is under heavy fire from academicians, he is not about to risk losing labor's support-particularly if he can keep it without suffering too badly...
...many different ones, conditioned by blocs, regions, self-interest and shibboleths; 2) all sides use world opinion to bolster their own preconceived ideas; 3) while some memories linger longer than others, world opinion subsides quickly in the face of accomplished fact, and it does not argue indefinitely with success; 4) the free world, because it is free, is more sensitive to adverse opinion than the Communists...
Virtually all the clubs now talk about "liberalizing" their membership policies. The tacit ban on Jews has been relaxed in most clubs, though the ban on Negroes is still in effect. Experiments in "liberalization," however, have met with little success. The boy from public school in Iowa or Oregon elected to a club is often overwhelmed by the heady atmosphere and becomes himself a caricature clubbie...
Skip Ascheim directed Giraudoux's "The Apollo of Bellac" in quite a different style, but with almost equal success. The only serious problem was that the play depends entirely on one idea, and consequently sags...