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...court found it necessary to delay beyond the end of June adjudication of a case argued during its regular nine-month term. That came two years ago in the Detroit cross-district school segregation controversy, a case of extraordinary complexity. Moreover, the Justices were then on the threshold of one of the most important cases in Supreme Court history, the U.S. vs. Richard Nixon. But even with eleven decisions announced last week, the court still has not rendered judgments in 72 of the 179 cases argued this year. Thus an unprecedented spillover of court decisions into July appears increasingly inevitable...
...some stations have replaced happy talk with unhappy talk, tabloid-style, producing a constant trafficking in emotions, like closeups of people in pain being lifted into ambulances. This nightly distorted accumulation of police-beat misfortunes makes any city look like a disaster area. Items are tailored to the attention threshold of the least patient viewer. That is what happens when entertainment values outweigh news judgment...
...doubtful that an American President could confidently make that kind of statement today. In a handful of European countries, Communist parties are approaching the threshold of political power-not at the barrel of a Soviet cannon but in open and free elections. As a result, the specter of a Communist presence in Western Europe is stirring more concern and debate than at any time since the early years of the cold war, when the Marshall Plan, the Truman Doctrine and the Atlantic Alliance blocked Moscow's attempts to suborn democracy in France, Italy and Germany. Secretary of State Henry...
...clings to; "He is carrying the burden of all the suffering people in the world," he writes of himself. But Jimmy's true concerns are homosexual encounters with poor boys, miscegenation and sodomy with upper-class women, and a book he is writing. When revolution is apparently on the threshold, Jimmy is ineffective...
...vortexes of air and toppling seas, Constable with his images of the domestic countryside, "a branch of natural philosophy, of which my pictures are but the experiments." Both lived through the Industrial Revolution and experienced the strains it exerted on the fabric of English society. Both stood on the threshold of the modern world. But Turner's delight in extremity, the catastrophic sublime rising from a deep instinctive pessimism, makes him appear a "modern" artist-perhaps the first. Not Constable. His green distances and slowly turning water mills, his amiable valleys and serene horizons banked with cumulus seem...