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...left in her wake a trail of smoking Congressmen and State Department administrators. They call her the "ogress," and it has been suggested that she used to leak State Department information to Senator Joe McCarthy-a charge she firmly denies. In her most celebrated battle, she faced down Abba Schwartz, the liberal head of the State Department's Bureau of Security and Consular Affairs. Schwartz, in an effort to ease political restrictions on the issuance of passports, tried to force her to resign. In the end, it was Schwartz who resigned from the department...
...Penny Sycamore, the zany lady who becomes a playwright because a typewriter was mistakenly delivered to her address, is brilliantly performed: she has assimilated the character so well that her dialogue does not exist as lines, a guile-lessness making at once for high comedy and fine acting. Llody Schwartz's Kolenkhov is a natural scene-stealer. He pronounces "The Monte Carlo Ballet" with just the right Bela Lugosi intonation, he talks and gestures like a proud Rasputin fallen on bad times, and his Romanov leer is so hilariously Russian that one can smell the caviar in the pit. George...
...leads after a five-year wait had "cleansed" them. Legal authorities claim that the proposed law is not really needed by prosecutors anyway; when they have justification for thinking that crime is going on, they can make most searches and tapes by obtaining warrants first. Says Herman Schwartz, a wiretap-law expert at the State University of New York at Buffalo: "The provision blows a hole in the entire fabric that the Supreme Court has woven to deter official lawlessness...
...speak out may be forced out. Still, job insecurity may also curb the intellectual arrogance that afflicts some graduate students. "I've rarely seen such deference from Ph.D. candidates," says Harvard Sociologist Seymour Martin Lipset. "They're becoming obsequious again." For his part, M.I.T. Physicist Brian Schwartz suggests that all graduate school catalogues should bear a new legend: "Warning: graduate education may be hazardous to your career...
...Schwartz also put some of the blame for American involvement in Vietnam on what he called "a new kind of moral arrogance." He described this attitude as the American mentality of "technocratic infallibility." the belief that we had mastered the "science of knowing how to handle...