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Several critics have taken the producers of the film to task for irresponsibility in distorting reality merely to obtain "wild effects." Certainly, there is a total disregard of credibility in it, but a motion picture so perfect in execution and so thoroughly entertaining as The Manchurian Candidate has not been...
His new importance enabled Chan to avenge his father's death. He gave the name of the killer to Tan Chengwen, chief of the regional PSB, and says matter-of-factly: "Tan sent off the order for his execution. No trial was necessary."
In an introduction that recalls the days when he was jobless and neither fudge nor genius seemed salable, Greene says that the book is about the injustice of man's justice. It is, but Greene was Greene even then-and his real interest was the vice of man'...
No matter how deeply one is committed to the cause of integration and no matter how vigorously one despises the unforgivable intransigence of Mississippi, he must deplore the coming brutality in that unhappy state. Justice, however sublime, always loses much of its power of reassurance when its execution is effected...
Back to Caesar. The cloture vote came hard to Senators fond of tracing the history of the legislative filibuster back to ancient Rome, where an eloquent praetor named Julius Caesar tried (unsuccessfully) to talk to death a measure ordering the execution of Catiline's coconspirators.