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...object." Nor was it only Kennedy's star quality that made the difference. McGovern was cheered just as warmly and usually longer. Moreover, he began to get the feel of audience-tested lines. The most popular, repeated in litany: "Never again will we commit the precious young blood of this land to prop up a corrupt military dictatorship 10,000 miles away...
...rigorously simple and familiar saga, The Emigrants is made eloquent through the tone and the telling. Director Jan Troell gives life and substance to what Willa Cather called "the precious, the incommunicable past." Indeed, at its best, The Emigrants has the same feeling for landscape and incident (a man proud of a pair of new black boots, a death and burial at sea) that glistens in Cather's best work...
Automaking is such an all-pervasive industry that fortunes can be made and lost on the winks of Detroit's Big Three. Lately there has been considerable speculation on just how seductively they are winking at the precious and relatively obscure metal platinum. On the one hand, platinum is the leading candidate to serve as the active agent in an anti-pollution device that will probably have to be installed on all new cars beginning in 1975. But hundreds of scientists are trying to find another, cheaper substance that will do the same job. If they succeed, the platinum...
...Cordelia, since they do not bolster the antiwoman argument, and dwells on the unflattering portrayal of Joan of Arc in Henry VI, Part I to establish Shakespeare's bias. It is more direct and more correct to recall that France was the hereditary enemy of England, and that precious few Frenchmen are depicted with anything but derision and distaste in Shakespeare. Apply the argument in reverse. Tennessee Williams has given us remarkable and far from unsympathetic in-depth portraits of women. Does that make him profeminist? If Shakespeare did not lavish his hugest genius on women, it is probably...
...wear down too quickly. That problem apparently has been solved with modern metal-coating processes, but the rotary engine still has at least one major disadvantage. It uses about 10% more fuel than standard engines at high speeds, thus adding to consumer costs and in effect wasting an already precious natural resource...