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...noted that the Supreme Court is the weakest branch of the federal government. "I doubt very much if the judiciary has the power to tell the American people that they cannot inflict punishment on Communists...
Though he probably has the best single defensive unit in the North, Munro still says the team's "weakest spot" is the attack. Plagued for several years with a lack of depth in this department, Munro is faced with the problem of finding adequate reserves to spell starting attackman Captain Grady Watts, "Woody" , and newcomer Lew Williams...
...invaders. The enigma of Guerrero is not fully resolved at the book's end; he is a less complete character than that other Stacton enigma, the Pharaoh Ikhnaton of the brilliant On a Balcony (TIME, Sept. 6. 1959). The trouble may be that philosophical novelists are, in their weakest moments, tract-writing zealots. Stacton's message in this book is that the proper study of doomed men is how to die with dignity. But in his eagerness to give his hero a suitable death, he has neglected to bring him credibly to life...
...knew sin; the guilt and hysteria of the late '40's and early '50's extended to liberals who had never been associated with the Communist Party in the '30's, even to men who were born too late to be part of the decade of treason. Thus the weakest and least sympathetic portion of Arthur M. Schlesinger's Age of Roosevelt is his treatment of the American Left; Schlesinger is too scarred himself, too much involved in the post World War II liberal anguish to see the radicals of his period clearly...
...jerkily as it is, and surely the Administration realises how fragile and tenuous an instrument of progress it must be. By diverting attention from the goals of the first conference to the irrelevant questions of the second, the U.S. has dealt the Alliance a bad blow in its weakest moments. This was to be an era of liberal and realistic attitudes toward Latin America. On the diplomatic and bureaucratic levels no doubt the attitudes are there, but they cannot retrieve all the errors that aimless makers of policy perpetrate...