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This bitter dispute about dates was the latest symptom of the Assembly's deadlock over the issue of electoral reform. Most Deputies agree that the present system of proportional-representation voting must be changed before the next election. The antianticipationistes feel that the Assembly, which has fruitlessly debated the question on & off since last October, will be unable to find a workable substitute in time for elections in June...
...weekly metamorphosis of most Smith girls is of some interest for itself, but is worth special notice as a symptom of a way of life. Northampton, Massachusetts is tucked in the Connecticut River Valley at the foot of the Holyoke Range, a two hour automobile trip from New Haven, about a two and a half hour drive from Boston, and a good deal more than that from other spots of social interest...
Though such indecision is often a dangerous symptom, Payment on Demand is good enough for moviegoers to care how it ends. The plot is not far removed from soap opera, but thanks to painstaking treatment and acting, it is a comfortable distance. Back again at the old tricks she discarded for All About Eve, Bette Davis plays a hateful woman as well as ever...
...current trend in American thinking, the colleges certainly bring no credit on themselves by submitting to the trend without a protest. As Professor Handlin pointed out in his Atlantic Monthly article, the youth of this country has formed the core of every progressive movement, and it is a discouraging symptom when we submit so readily to the complacency of our elders. A few voices in protest--though they have no immediate effect--are still pleasant to hear. David R. Lide...
...picture itself may strike some as a disturbing symptom of a jungle mentality that flourishes in the U.S. far beyond the boundaries of Hollywood. By making a gutless heel into a sympathetic, attractive, and pseudo-sophisticated "hero," Sunset Boulevard seems to say that the smudged line between right & wrong is about the same as the line of least resistance. Yet a good deal of the sympathy the "hero" arouses is the shamefaced, there-but-for-the-grace-of-God kind of sympathy aroused by any conscience-stricken, miserable human being...