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...COUNCIL by Lothar Wolleh. 121 pages. Viking. $38.50. An oversized (17 in. by 13 in.), baroquely beautiful record of Vatican II. The text, succinct and printed in large type, is not particularly arresting, but the color photos...
Although = Though. A persuasive case could probably be argued against the need for any guidebooks to good usage, but an airtight case could surely be marshaled against windy ones. William Strunk Jr.'s succinct Elements of Style (71 pages; TIME, July 13, 1959) does not waste time, for example, on the nonexistent difference between although and though; Modern American Usage squanders 750 words on the subject, concludes: "There is not much to be lost by treating the two words as interchangeable and not much to be gained by attempts to differentiate them...
...McCloy shares Ball's fear of the Gaullist proud tower. "Nationalism breeds nationalism," McCloy told the Senate last week, "and if we do not watch our step, we shall find Europe again engaged in a struggle for national dominance with cross-alliances." In Britain, Whitehall skeptics are more succinct; to them De Gaulle's Europe is one that stretches "from the Atlantic to the Urinals...
...maturity. Producer Marshal Backlar, 30, and Writer-Director Noel Black, 28, thus establish themselves as novice moviemakers who seem happily unafraid of going their own way. They resolutely tackle a minor theme and polish it to professional perfection-a swift, sensitive and funny celebration of a small universal truth. Succinct as poetry, Skaterdater simply happens like a green spring morning; it is the lyric cinematic equivalent of light verse...
...executed, gangland-style, in her Beverly Hills living room, and who later acted out a cameo role before the late Senator Estes Kefauver's Senate crime committee, playing dumb about the business dealings of her many racketeer friends but boggling Senators with her full-grown curves and succinct explanation of just why men would lavish money on a hospitable girl from Bessemer, Ala.; apparently by her own hand (barbiturates); near Salzburg, Austria, where she fled with her ski-instructor husband, Hans Hauser, in 1951 to escape tax evasion charges...