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...Millions of dollars will have to be wasted in a vain attempt to enforce a law the president clearly promised to get ride of," David Landau '72, spokesman for the American Civil Liberties Union, said...
...Third Commandment forbids using the Lord's name in vain, can his name be used for a nuclear-powered fast attack submarine? At its annual meeting in Washington this fall, the National Conference of Catholic Bishops voted no. They wrote an elaborately polite letter to Navy Secretary John Lehman, saying that naming a sub Corpus Christi-Latin for body of Christ-"is very nearly sacrilegious...
...transaction, after all, had first to be agreeable to both sides. A vain Shah wanted Mike Wallace's vast audience to hear his imperious views, though knowing full well that in exchange there would also be tough Wallace questions about secret-police tortures. In the confessional world of check-out counter celebrity journalism, any show-biz figure courting publicity knows that one condition will be a lengthy exploration of his or her marriages and living arrangements. Only the inexperienced expect a journalistic transaction to be risk free. This includes intellectuals so disdainful of pop culture as to be innocent...
...McKellen, late of Amadeus and the Royal Shakespeare company, struggles in vain to play the part of the genius, falling several deciles short of the score. His Lawrence is less the Martyr of British Censorship than he is martyred by Alan Plater's offensive and vapid screenplay. At the mercy of lines such as."We writers, we're supposed to be brave," or "Better peoplethan me have been crucified," he tempts us to ask why tuberculosis could not have claimed him sooner and so spare us the pain...
...adventurer. Returning to Corsica during the first year of the Revolution, he tries in vain to persuade the government to ally itself with France. Declared an outlaw, he snatches the Tricolor and rides toward the coast, chased by troops through the Corsican countryside. He clambers aboard a small boat with no oars and no sail; hoisting the Tricolor, he sets sail for France...