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...building a house-planning and building "the foundation for our forthcoming legislative program." The result: "It is a program that does not deal in pie-in-the-sky promises to all, nor in bribes to a few, nor in threats to any. It is a program inspired by zeal for the common good, dedicated to the welfare of every American family-whatever its means of livelihood may be, or its social position, or its ancestral strain, or its religious affiliation...
...destroy personal freedom by annihilating privacy. This whole field of technological surveillance needs legislative attention. The Government cannot be given unlimited power to peep and pry. "The greatest dangers to liberty," wrote Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis with reference to wiretapping, "lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal." But the Government does need some power to balance the criminal's new advantages, especially the advantages to conspiracy against the national security...
...series of Harvard nights at downtown theatres. In 1904 the Boston Transcripts could well say, "There is not a University in America in which a numerically appreciable and notably intelligent and finely strung body of students cultivates the arts of the theatre with the eager and usually discriminating zeal of the Harvard students...
...humor of this comedy depends much more on the acting than on the plot. To actor and audience the plot is absurd, but if the enthusiasm of the performers were credible, the drollery of the whole production would succeed. Director Charles Chrishten has spread looks of Zeal over the faces of his cast like make up. Unlike cosmetics, however, Chrichton's technique never comes off. One never believes that the people of Titfield are sincerely ecstatic when talking about their two car Zephyr. And worse, one hardly cares. The most amusing lines and a few way pokes at British socialism...
...Herself Surprised). Chester Nimmo, who made his debut in Gary's last novel, Prisoner of Grace (TIME, Oct. 20, 1952), is no scamp but a fireballing politico who marries into money, gets elected to Parliament, enters the Cabinet and finally becomes Lord Nimmo, without ever losing his missionary zeal or his sense of political destiny. Except the Lord,* which takes Chester Nimmo back in point of time to his mid-Victorian boyhood and young manhood, asks, retrospectively, one central question: What made Nimmo...