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...Sayre's argument is that the debate over the relationship of scholarship and teaching becomes "merely a battle of slogans" without careful distinction and definitions of terms. He proceeded to define six different types of teachers, from "the great scholar who can take two pages of Aristotle and unfold the connections and meanings of the text of these pages for a whole year or more," to "the gadfly teacher, who arouses, irritates, and challenges...
Tucked into a script already long on inspirational appeal are four of Dr. Peale's own sermons, but this verity is not matched by any attempt to add real insight as the facts of his life unfold in patently fictional form. As drama, One Man's Way will appeal to few; as inspiration, mainly to those who believe in positive thinking...
...drama continued to unfold, there were rumors that it was all a publicity stunt or some other sort of hoax, and indeed that was one of the first avenues of investigation probed by the FBI. Then, too, there was the matter of Frank Sr.'s genial flirtation with a kind of shadow Clan of his own, consisting of high-echelon hoods. No one figured out the connection, if any, but many were prepared to view the kidnaping as something less than the real thing. They were wrong...
Thus fact and fantasy interweave in this first feature by Writer-Director Curtis Harrington. Shot along the Southern California beach front on a $75,000 budget, the film emits an uncommon glow of freshness and imagination. Harrington daringly chose to unfold his realistic tale of suspense as if he were Edgar Allan Poe with a megaphone, and most of the time the experiment succeeds. He heightens reality, giving a nightmare quality to commonplace events. Soon even the ripple of bath water begins to sound ominous. In one scene, punctuated by echoes, the pilings under an old pier are transformed into...
...Court for a hearing to decide whether his case should be referred to the Old Bailey for trial. The charge: eight counts of procuring, living off the earnings of prostitutes, running a brothel and arranging abortions. In his opening statement, Prosecutor Mervyn Griffith-Jones warned that the hearing would unfold a "somewhat sordid story." It was sordid all right-and more than somewhat...