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Those who yearn to see New York's law upheld avidly quote the court's California decision: "The states are not precluded from developing workable rules to meet the practical demands of effective criminal investigation and law enforcement in the states, provided that the rules do not violate the Constitution's proscription of unreasonable searches and seizures...
POOR RICHARD does not register as many laughs as Mary, Mary, but Jean Kerr again produces the wit that is instant wisdom. Alan Bates plays the kind of mixed-up wanderer that women yearn to straighten out and anchor...
...piece of stage machinery, Director De Sica cunningly transforms its back street romance into an earthy, exuberant paean to virtue. Mastroianni's vain, middle-aged gallan-checking the coxcomb at every mirror, sneaking into a little dance of smug self-satisfaction -smacks of the satyr that most men yearn to be when the moon is right. And Sophia has become far too perceptive an actress to squander her talents as a mere prostitute-with-a-heart-of-gold. Now wild, now touchingly woebegone, now coolly indomitable, she is Everywoman, Italian style...
...happy; some golden age, some Garden of Eden. He also reasons that somewhere ahead lies a promised land. Meanwhile, he is miserably en passage." But if man were to find his Utopia, writes Fowles, he would be much more miserable. For man is made to struggle and yearn: "We are designed to want: with nothing to want, we are like windmills in a world without wind...
...earn a living, build a bridge, or attain whatever finite goal we posit. The answers we obtain have meaning only in terms of the purposes behind the questions we ask; there is no realm of "truth in itself," towards which it is the duty of the student to yearn in a pointless idealism...