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Elaine Kellogg does not like congestion. Given the choice, she would pass up the city any day for the simpler lifestyle of her family's farm in Vermont...
Barber wants the network anchor man's words made simpler, the brief snippets of news filled out with more background. Well, may be. As Sol Hurok used to say, if people don't want to come, nothing will stop them. Mark R. Levy, a New York sociologist, made a two-year study of why people watch the news and concluded that "being informed is only a secondary motive for most viewers. Most people watch TV news to be amused and diverted, or to make sure that their homes and families are safe and secure...
...would be left to his successor, Richard Cardinal Cushing, a man of simpler style, and Pope John XXIII, successor to Pius XII, to paint a picture of Catholicism which was inconsistent neither with the times nor the experiences of 20th century Americans of all faiths living in an age of rapid social change. The election of John F. Kennedy '40 to the presidency in 1961 did not so much prove that a Catholic could be president as show how little being a Catholic had to do with being president at all. These developments raised the nation's consciousness and provided...
...comfortably. All that gloss raises expectations of a more suspenseful narrative, stronger melodramatic payoffs. It is the sort of thing storytellers invent but reality rarely provides; the sort of thing that makes even silly efforts like Force 10 from Navarone or the recent Hanover Street seem mildly exciting. Something simpler, more documentary in manner would have suited Soldier of Orange better. As it stands, the movie is unsatisfying, both as action entertainment and as a serious study of people under the pressure of oppression...
...mainly Coolidge believes that life will be much simpler if the whole issue isn't raised. "It's a philosophical debate that can't be resolved," he says. But others disagree...