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Voyage is the work of Albert Lamorisse, already known for his prizewinning shorts (Bim, White Mane, The Red Balloon) and probably the most original moviemaker in France. Echoing the consensus, Le Monde's Jean de Baroncelli, dean of Paris film critics, wrote: Voyage is "a tale of a dream realized. Pure cinema. Above all, a ravishing spectacle." Wrote Author André Maurois: "A film for poets and philosophers...
...omissions that he attributed to both these contributors. His argument that less expensive countermeasures will eventually damage the effectiveness of fallout shelters is not without merit. However, considerations of a political and much broader kind legislate against the advisability of a shelter program. These considerations spring from the world consensus that mankind has a bleak future in a permanent "armsathon," and that no effort to call a halt is too great or too soon. The United States, if she is to contribute her share to diminishing the conflict, must unencumber her defense structure of excessive business interests; she must achieve...
When the National League Pirates trot onto the field this week, there again will be the Yankees. But this time no one expects Pittsburgh to turn patsy. Around both leagues, players, managers and coaches were weighing the two clubs and finding the balance remarkably even. The experts' consensus...
Bowles' belief in a liberal consensus of public opinion suffers from the same basic weakness as Goldwater's notion of the conservative consensus--neither exists--but Bowles' argument at least has some interesting historical roots. Bowles sees a pattern in American political history of recurring "breakthroughs" (or "breaksthrough": this is definitely an adman's word): at the times of Jefferson, Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt. These breakthroughs occurred when the party in power was no longer able to cope with a situation, and the minority had developed a new and promising approach to the problem. The old minority was then able...
...content of Bowles' hypothetical consensus, it follows the general line of Democratic platform and campaign, with the same virtues (concern for all the necessary things Goldwater would abandon) and faults (an eagerness to disguise the fact that public programs cost money and a corresponding failure to stress the fact that the country can and must afford this money). Bowles writes in amazingly short, terse paragraphs, and too often appears to be offering the reader an oversimplified first primer in American politics, history and economics...