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...Goin' Down the Road owes much to the early DeSica in its attempts to communicate the feeling of a life-style by approaching its subject in its own terms, on its own grounds, avoiding the poetic affects a detached narrative viewpoint allows. It is the characters', not the director's moods we see being indulged. But Peter and Joey are simply not complex enough to carry a feature-length film...
Last week's 41-hour meeting between the Big Four ambassadors in Berlin produced little in the way of proof for either viewpoint. Ulbricht, for his part, declared in a speech in East Berlin that his government would be willing to talk directly with Bonn "on the basis of equality and the other principles of international law." But senior U.S. State Department officials described the speech as basically "quite tough...
Robert J. LeBlanc, the young assistant to Corcoran, gave his office's viewpoint that "legally the City Manager cannot obligate the city for this kind of future expenditure. It simply exceeds our power...
Despite these assets, Buckley still had a major problem. He could not win unless his opponents split the moderate-liberal vote closely enough to allow a Conservative plurality. Enter the Nixon Administration. The White House decided early that Goodell had no chance to win. From its viewpoint, good riddance; Goodell had become more liberal and more troublesome to Nixon than many Senate Democrats. Buckley early-on vowed to vote with the Republicans in Washington...
...piece in the same issue, detected conservative views in Leonard's writing. Buckley phoned, and hired him as an editorial apprentice on National Review magazine. Leonard did layout, makeup, a few book reviews. After Buckley sent him to post-revolutionary Cuba, Leonard found his political viewpoint solidifying. "I was always vaguely liberal," he says, "but Buckley taught me to develop my ideas logically. I discovered I was growing more radical, and that made it impossible for me to stay at National Review. Buckley helped radicalize me. made me think about politics...