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...hurt the convention, that the whole show was too heavily rigged for TV effects. BBC Correspondent Robin Day, pointing out that TV cameras are forced to the back of the rbom in British conventions, said he thought the cameras injure the freedom of the U.S. press, killing off "the valid idea of off-the-record remarks," as politicians eagerly seek TV exposure and then produce floods of "blather and gobbledygook...
...Tenth Man. Paddy Chayefsky's play-intellectually deficient but emotionally valid-about the fight to save a young girl's soul from an evil spirit...
...Nullity. The Sacred Roman Rota is 700 years old and probably takes its name from the circular hall in which its priestly judges, who are called auditors, used to convene. It is, with rare exceptions, the court of last appeal as to whether or not a marriage is valid in the eyes of the Roman Catholic Church. Its wheels grind slowly: the average case drags on for four to five years, and some may last for 20. When one woman complained to a churchman that her beauty might suffer, he replied: "Madame, the church has observed that in 20 years...
Impediments & Insufficiencies. The grounds for nullification fall into three categories: 1) impediment, 2) insufficiency of consent, 3) faulty canonical form. Impediments include underage (brides must be 14, grooms 16), impotence (but not sterility), disparity of worship (a Catholic cannot, without dispensation, validly marry a person who has not been baptized), abduction (a valid ground only for brides), crime (such as murdering one's mate to marry another), consanguinity, though in certain cases dispensation can be granted, "public honesty" (a man living with a concubine cannot marry into her family, and vice versa...
...other of the two categories. The work of many artists is semi-abstract or semi-representational; some of the best entries this year were just such items, like W. T. Cummings' "Beach" and Robert Harnilton's "Crucifixion." The war betwen traditionalists and modernists is useless; the only valid war is between the good and the bad, both of which can be achieved in any style. Ernst Halberstadt's representational (and Oriental-influenced) "Landscape" was fine, as was John Gregoropoulos' abstract "Olympian Landscape"; Yukata Ohashi's "Equilibrium No. 4" was abstractionism at its worst, while William Hardy's representational "Bridge...