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...once they were on the air. An incident this summer suggests that Spivak has not lost his scheduling touch. During the Thomas Eagleton imbroglio, CBS's Face the Nation seemed to have scored a clear scoop by presenting the beleaguered vice-presidential candidate and Jack Anderson, his chief tormentor, on the same program. But that day Meet the Press interviewed Democratic National Chairman Jean Westwood and Deputy Chairman Basil Paterson, who said that "it would be a noble thing" for Eagleton to resign from the Democratic ticket. That not-at-all casual remark undermined Eagleton's position...
...Front, adapted from his first novel, which in Germany alone sold 1.2 million copies in 1929. Remarque came to deploy war like a painted backdrop. But his final novel (ten novels later) indicates that he changed less than his readers from his original pacifism- that war remained his obsessive tormentor, his in explicable agony...
...just as this experience had "engendered in me a flame that will live, live to grow, until it either destroys my tormentor or myself," it also nurtured compassion and empathy...
...made through violent revolution. "All the gentle, shy characteristics of the black man have been wrung unceremoniously from my soul. The buffets and blows of this have and have-not society have engendered in me a flame that will live, live to grow, until it either destroys my tormentor or myself." Last week in San Quentin, the flame burned...
...through music, Director Russell makes every character grotesque, every bar of music programmatic. Ballets are transformed into pastoral scenes, concertos into imaginary duels. In a crescendo of vulgarity, the 1812 Overture becomes, in Tchaikovsky's beleaguered brain, an execution. Each cannon shot lops off the head of a tormentor: sister (Sabina Maydelle), patron, lover...