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...Conway Show, which premieres on CBS this week, is also a witless formula sitcom, starring the ex-McHale's Navyman as pilot of a broken-down, one-plane airline. In the first episode, Conway gets locked out of the cockpit in midflight. Hilarious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Not Worth a Second Look | 2/2/1970 | See Source »

...along with them. Jonathan Winters, as General Billy Joe Hallson, secondhand mattress salesman and head of the San Antonio unit of the Texas National Guard, has a couple of good stumblebum comic moments, as does Kenneth Mars playing a Texas Minuteman. But even they can do nothing about the witless dialogue and vapid plotting, which lace the comic moments in Viva Max with all the kick of day-old cerveza...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Forget the Alamo | 2/2/1970 | See Source »

...short, the university is a necessary condition for sustained radical analysis of American society and for strong radical movements to undertake its reconstruction; to diminish the university with reckless and witless attacks, with violence for the hell of it, is to diminish our radical future...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Radical Scholar And the CFIA Policy | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

...McHarg is a 48-year-old landscape architect who delights conservationists with eloquent speeches that blast man the polluter as "a blind, witless, lowbrow, anthropocentric clod." With his Scottish burr, fierce beard and piercing eyes, McHarg is a cross between Jeremiah and a kind of male Rachel Carson. He is not only a symbol of rising anger at environmental abuses, but a successful practitioner of the hard art of stopping those abuses. In his new book, Design with Nature, which Lewis Mumford calls "a vision of organic exuberance and human delight," McHarg clearly shows that the main obstacle to saving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Land: How to Design with Nature | 10/10/1969 | See Source »

...HAPPENED IN BOSTON? by Russell H. Greenan. Witless German art experts, villainous Peruvian generals, paranoiac harpies, spying pigeons, nosy janitors and struggling artists are only part of the fantastic story that leads a deranged narrator and master painter into forgery, murder and an attempt to kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Mar. 14, 1969 | 3/14/1969 | See Source »

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