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Anatomy of a Murder (Carlyle Productions; Columbia), based on the 1958 bestseller by Robert T raver (pen name of Justice John D. Voelker of the Michigan Supreme Court), is a courtroom melodrama that seems less concerned with murder than with anatomy. In scene after scene, the customers are bombarded with...
Another U.S. revolution from which Europe has everything to learn is the social and industrial one. According to Bruckberger, the U.S. has defanged and debunked the class struggle. Europe's classical capitalist economists, e.g., Adam Smith, Ricardo, held that the worker was forever doomed to a ''minimum...
The plot: a bartender is murdered by an Army lieutenant (Ben Gazzara), who tells the police he committed the crime because the bartender had beaten and raped his wife (Lee Remick). The wife supports the lieutenant's story, and a lie-detector test, though not admissible in evidence, supports...
Thus Johann Wolfgang von Goethe saluted the new nation across the seas. In the century and a half since then, Americans have become much more accustomed to polemic peltings than to poetic praise from Europe, but the latest literary mail carries an eloquently Goethian fan letter. Dominican Raymond Leopold Bruckberger...
The Bed of Utopia. What is it that the U.S. has to teach Europe? Paradoxically, says Bruckberger, it can teach Europe to be non-puritanical in its politics. Europe has consistently sacrificed man in the flesh to theory in the abstract. The French and Russian Revolutions were Procrustean; if human...