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...movie. But it would be a pity if that memory distracted attention from other merits of the CBS News series The Defense of the United States, which aired for an hour on each of five successive nights last week. Complex issues, like that of high-technology vs. simpler weapons, usually the preserve of scholarly tomes, were tackled head-on -and in prime time. The series was not only the longest and most expensive network documentary ever but perhaps the most thoughtful and incisive TV examination of the American military as well...
...county's eligible blacks were registered. In the 1968 elections, Branch offered white political bosses a compromise: although blacks then had 60% of the vote, they would run a combined slate with whites, splitting the available offices fifty-fifty. A white probate judge had a simpler solution: he refused to put the black names on the ballot...
...alone good craftsmanship-is no longer considered a requisite for the audience's pleasure. The theory seems to be that if the characters run around enough, encountering in their hasty passages sufficient amounts of shocking behavior, no one will notice that the story makes no sense. A simpler way of saying this is "What's good enough for television is good enough...
Analyzing Wodehouse the man is no simpler. Happily married to one woman for 60 years, absolutely bonkers about Pekingese dogs, could he have been as delighted and kindly as he looked, smiling from all those dust jackets? Not quite...
...Dylan there hasn't been much proof of this. Perhaps power now goes to those who affix the country's labels. Editors and others who do so should recall Albert Einstein's dictum that everything should be as simple as it can be, but not simpler...