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...Wont to Hear It Again...
Indiscriminately, as is our wont, presenting everything available with the generous assumption that you yourselves will choose the greatest and the wisest and the best among them, we list the following egregiously overrated films which we don't know why we bother to list them. Viz., At the Kenmore,they are showing a movie which someone thoughtfully went to the trouble of making from Arthur Miller's worst play, A View From the Bridge; who knows why (but don't get us wrong; we love Hollywood). At the Fenway (KE 6-0610),we would revert to our former mode...
...seasoned politico will tell you that the American voter is hard to pin-down: sometimes he wants virtue in a candidate, sometimes glamor, sometimes innocuousness. Like the child of a land of infinite variety that he is, he tires easily and unpredictably of one political goody, and is wont to pass on with appalling fickleness to a new idol...
...East and West. Towering (6 ft. 8 in.) Ken Galbraith is a vastly engaging, vastly self-assured pragmatist; given to heavily ironic wisecracks, he likes to be taken for an ogre, and in diplomacy, he claims, he has had to make himself "a lot more agreeable" than is his wont. Slight (5 ft. 11 in., 165 Ibs.) Ed Reischauer is a low-key, hard-driving teetotaler whose Oriental serenity and upbringing have prompted the Japanese to treat him like an honorable cousin...
...right surge is salted with military men, both active and retired. Those still on active duty can often command a captive audience. Thus, until his recent transfer to Pentagon duty, U.S. Navy Captain Kenneth J. Sanger, commanding officer of the Sand Point Naval Air Station in Seattle, was wont to require attendance at his dramatic platform demonstrations. On a mast labeled "Free Enterprise," he would hoist signs representing such virtues as "Loyalty," "Patriotism." and "Self-Reliance." Then he would pick up a stick called "Communism," take a hefty swing-and watch all the virtues come tumbling down...