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Then, urging the young Congressmen to work hard on Capitol Hill, the President unwound a bit. "There is one thing about this job," Harry Truman confided with a wry smile. "It has no future...
Earnest A. Hooton, self-winding Harvard anthropologist, unwound a wallop at love on the dole. "Stupid, shiftless, and improvident human beings breed the most rapidly," he informed a California lecture audience, "because they feel little responsibility to their offspring and recognize no obligation to society. . . . If we must feed and foster the incompetent, we should at the same time prevent their reproducing their kind...
...point, the Administration unwound and cancelled the customary rent for Sanders, a courtesy which it does not extend to current dramatic groups, so taken was it with the idea of sponsoring an American premiere of a classical play. It was the "Phormio" of Terence, in 1894, and all of literary Boston, as well as whatever scholars happened to be in other parts of the country, were invited to attend. Even President Cleveland (of the United States) was sent an invitation, and although he declined with regrets, the whole production came off with celat, socially as well as educationally...
...tuition, 50 "advanced and specially gifted musicians" will be provided with extracurricula not offered by the East's famed but city-bound Juilliard, Eastman and Curtis: a private beach and mountain scenery, as well as a list of celebrated teachers, advisers and sponsors as long as an unwound French horn...
Nocturne has some minor virtues for whodunit addicts who are determined to be frightened. The photography, full of wind, rain and long night shadows, is moodily chilling. There are also some fair sets: a nightclub where much of the plot is unwound looks as small, grubby and unglamorous as most real nightclubs. The movie's chief faults: too little headlong action and too much head scratching about a mystery that is not very mysterious...