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...Kroeger), charms a hard spinster nurse (Betty Garde) into criminal complicity, endangers the life of a trusting floozy (Shelley Winters), lands a pathetic doctor (Konstantin Shayne) in trouble with the law, assiduously corrupts his younger brother (Tommy Cook), and does his best to exploit the emotions of the one decent girl (Debra Paget) he has ever known. All this heelish behavior is shown to be worse than mere lawbreaking, and all of it is shown to be part & parcel of a lawbreaker's mentality. The movies seldom attempt so much, and seldom carry it out with such knowing attention...
Football tickets have been the source of undergraduate gripes since Harvard began playing in the Stadium. All-male cheering sections, goal-lne seats for Seniors--these have brought perennial complaints. But in dealing with visiting colleges, the H.A.A. has always offered courtesy, hospitality, and decent seats...
...decent citizens in the South condoned the night rides, the fiery crosses and the lynch mobs. No one but a fool condoned them. But what about the Negro's right to an education, a job? As far as Strom Thurmond was concerned, he would not deny the Negro the right to an education and a job. Thurmond had to accept a federal judge's decision that the Negro had a right to vote; 35,000 voted in the South Carolina primaries this year. The so-called Southern "liberal" went further: he would and did encourage the Negro...
...said that in the last moments of one's life one thinks of all the bad things. I feel better in that I had my wish in learning of your safe return to Greenwich -you were so wonderful-understanding -I'm glad the newspapers gave you a decent report ... I can perhaps feel that as my last thoughts didn't turn up a lot of bad that I wasn't too bad in life . . . which God knows is more than bad enough." He added a postscript, "What a nice stamp on yesterday's letter...
...reading book," says the author, is "what we all want these days ... a book in which we can lose ourselves . . ." If this is all everybody wants, his new novel provides a decent degree of immersion. The story of a wagon journey across Pennsylvania in 1764, Toward the Morning moves with all the jingle and creak and rich, contemplative leisure of a horse-drawn cavalcade in open country. The reader has all the time in the world to take in everything, and the author gives him everything...