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...Russell has no intrinsic rationale for his boned-up effects. It's pure Hollywood chi-chi. The movie lasted less than a week in Boston. Consider for example a scene of Sophie and Henri husting stones by the seashore. He scales a lower of white rock, and straddling he peak, black cape whipping in the winds, he cuts a lone prophet figure against a clear sea; meanwhile the dances out her care-free spiritual applause on the sand, crying. "It will be a hymn to Truth and Beauty!" Or take the ending of the film: Gaudier-Brzeska's last unsculpted...
...important in a time when Nixon's popularity is at a peak to demonstrate that considerable opposition to his policies still exists. But simple demonstration is not enough. The opposition must prove its validity by showing how community action works to the benefit of average citizens in small issues as well as large ones. It must show that there is much more power for the people of a democracy than the choice every few years between two front-running candidates; it must show that Nixon can exercise only as much control over civil liberties as citizens are willing to allow...
...Rockettes, a magic show, an occasional elephant, horses and giant fountain displays. While Rockefeller Center, which owns the theater, is now giving it a $1,000,000 annual subsidy, the money does not make up for a marked drop in attendance over the last two decades. In its peak years in the '40s, the Music Hall attracted 12 million visitors a year, a number which had fallen off to 5,000,000 by 1969 and is now down to 4,000,000. Though the lines outside the box office can still stretch as far as three-quarters...
...bankroll their spending, consumers have dipped into their savings. The savings rate dropped from a peak of 8.6% of personal income in the second quarter of 1971 to just over 6% in the third quarter this year, though bankers now sense that it is starting to rise again. An unprecedented amount of consumer buying is on the cuff. Consumer credit went up more than $1 billion in each of the last six months tabulated; the rise in August, the latest month reported, tied May's record $1.4 billion. The Bank of America reports its BankAmericard volume running an extra...
...heal and develop itself: Emerson said as much in "Self-Reliance" in 1841. But Weil's quiet indictment of a society ruled by rationalism and psychological materialism is unique, because it comes from a true child of this society. Moreover, he sees evidence that "we have passed the peak of our rational intellecutal period." The Natural Mind, valuable for its optimism alone, is an important examination of the potential of the mind for finding its own strength and security within...