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However, let's not be so quick to encourage mothers to "leave the little darlings on their own." A serious factor in childhood emotional disturbance is the unnecessarily absent mother...
...Kings "the culmination of a gigantic fraud perpetuated by the film industry on the moviegoing public." Noting that the film has been criticised by the Roman Catholic Legion of Decency as "theologically, historically and scripturally inaccurate," she adds: "Christ is there as a physical presence, but His spirit is absent . . . There is not the slightest possibility that anyone will derive from the film any meaningful insight into what Christ's life and sufferings signify for us ... It is obvious that Bronston, Ray and Yordan have no opinion on the subject of Christ, except that...
...grounds: Louw's speech had been "offensive, fictitious and erroneous." Precipitately, a ballot was taken and the motion carried by 67 votes to South Africa's 1, with 20 delegates abstaining and 9 (including the U.S.) "not participating" in the vote at all. Adlai Stevenson, who was absent, later lamely explained the U.S. position: while disagreeing with South Africa's apartheid policy, the U.S. upholds every speaker's right to be heard...
...There is also the quality of integrity in packaging that, when absent, can be an extremely negative factor. Nobody likes to feel cheated, and when you buy a cake of soap only to find that two-thirds of the package volume is box, wrapping and air, and one-third is soap, there is a subtle but unmistakable letdown feeling. The same applies to boxed cereals and crackers that supposedly 'settle' in shipment. Misleading packaging is bad business, and people just won't stand for it much longer...
...brothers. The elder (Robert Shaw) has been in a mental institution, and between long silences he constructs his thoughts with the meticulous intensity of a child building a tower of blocks; the younger (Alan Bates) is a tradesman who only occasionally visits the room. In a gesture of almost absent-minded Samaritanism, the elder brother invites an old tramp to share his quarters...