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...Emigrants, the story of many good people besides Kari Oscar (who is only particularly strong), opens up our understanding to the extent that we can take full pride in these alien peoples' achievements. It is, above all, a noble film...
...building that provokes initial uneasiness. Massively heavy overhangs are supported by slender columns. An exposed glass staircase with no visible access projects out over the pedestrian's head. Alien green fiberglass covers the roof trusses. The concrete has been poured in super-human blocks twelve feet on a side. It's even impossible to view the entire building from any one points...
...work, emphasized by its Rube Goldbergian technologically great studio space. But it isn't a place on would want to live in, to call home, to surround one's life with its vision, shapes and materials. The edges are too hard, the materials too inorganic, the shapes too alien, the spaces too large, and the vision too monumental. All things which are only criticisms if one asks that one's work spaces be also spaces...
...campaign had hardly begun when the Republicans were berating the Democrats about a curious issue, one rarely if ever raised in a presidential election. "Dividing Americans into quotas is totally alien to the American tradition," declared President Nixon. "The way to end discrimination against some is not to begin discrimination against others." Contended Vice President Spiro Agnew: "A quota system, regardless of its avowed intent, has no place in a free society." It would, he said, "Push America backward, back into the failures of a bygone era of narrow-minded prejudices and internecine conflicts...
...native ground Edmund Wilson, who died early this summer (TIME, June 26), was America's most distinguished critic. But he was also an international Man of Letters who fluently pursued learning in seven alien tongues, bringing it back alive for cultivated U.S. readers in serviceably patrician English prose. Wilson's aim, or one of them, was to create "a history of man's ideas and imagining" set against the conditions that shaped both the ideas and the men. Of all his literary forays with that end in view, the broadest and most passionately humane is his study...