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Marx says that socialism will ultimately prevail if history takes its course. Why should Russia make man begin again when he has passed so far along the turbulent road to socialism? I cannot picture x and y fighting. Nor do I know of a society destroying itself intentionally. Wherein lies the advantage of a nuclear holocauset? Most people want peace . . . yet there is always the possibility of a fanatic touching off of a nuclear war (for that matter the new health services building might disolve in the next rain storm . . . or even become an efficient medical center) and this uncertainty...
...Rounded Cliché. Although the competition is fierce, no sitchcom is quite so cute, cute, cute as Ichabod and Me (CBS), wherein a metropolitan newsman (Robert Sterling) buys a small New England newspaper from owner Ichabod (George Chandler) Adams. The town is peopled by rounded, well-realized, three-dimensional clichés with names like Widow Ruskin and Cousin Martin, played by actors steeped in basic quaintsmanship. From ABC's Margie (1920s flapper) to CBS's Father of the Bride, the other new sitchcoms come close to the icky standards of Ichabod. Actress Shirley Booth has been caught...
...Here's a game," the coach explained later, "wherein you just can't loss enough times. It's more than sportsmanship one learns through losing, and it's more than morality. It's life itself, buddy...
...story reaches its horrifying climax when the hero, serving as a forward observer for his artillery unit, finally gets a chance to bring down the great hammer of the corporation behind him on the visible enemy. The ending, wherein Goodman twists the knife perhaps a bit too hard, deserves to be left unrecorded in a review except to say that the hero loses his mind and wins the Silver Star...
...across the footlights, as one critic noted, "before an audience more cowed than startled.'' But even in a private club, blackouts had to serve in lieu of the novel's sexual bouts. The evening's one unforgettable moment occurred by accident. During the cloying scene wherein the lovers (Jeanne Moody as Lady Chatterley, Walter Brown as Gamekeeper Mellors) decorate one another with garlands, Mellors started to slide out of bed and stopped short, paralyzed and fluffing his lines. In a play whose major theme is that bodies should not be embarrassing, his panic was caused...