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There seems to be little doubt about the swift, sure confirmation of Powell, 64. A Richmond lawyer, he sailed smoothly through his relatively brief appearance before the committee. Mainly a judicial conservative, Powell has a distinguished legal record and once served as president of the American Bar Association. During his questioning he emphasized the work he had done for liberal causes, especially his efforts to keep Virginia schools open in opposition to the official state policy of "massive resistance" to integration during the 1950s. Consequently, the committee liberals -Bayh, Edward Kennedy, Philip Hart of Michigan and John Tunney of California...
...Dare. This time the scenario actually concerns the making of a movie. A film company presided over by an evil Germanic butterball named Otto Gerran embarks on a refitted trawler to shoot on location at Bear Island in the Arctic Circle. Unlike, say, Ian Fleming, who was content with swift caricatures or comic-book effects, MacLean casts a few interesting human characters. There is old Captain Imrie, for example, who drinks like John Barrymore and thinks like Samuel Eliot Morison; and there is a rummy but Jesuitical mate named Stokes, who can remember the specific weather on an afternoon...
...placement of the terms ("taking hills, put them together, cutting out a piece of water,") is the aim of providing visual enjoyment. In order to be able to impart pleasure, the picture must be structured, and structured to be decorative. Mr. Feild's fond sensitivity experiments with the swift change in atmosphere characteristic of the Lake District and the effect this tension between light and shadow has on a landscape's face. Predicating this freedom "to play and monkey around" is an ideological commitment to discipline, to being accountable first for a viewer's satisfaction...
...Swift Expulsion...
...debate followed the script closely enough. In his role as chief executor of Peking's will in New York, Albania's swart Foreign Minister Nesti Nase rasped that Chiang's government "does not represent anything." He demanded swift adoption of the so-called Albanian resolution, which prescribes the seating of the Peking regime and immediate expulsion of the Nationalists. Taipei's embattled Foreign Minister Chow Shu-kai replied heatedly that if Peking has its way, "the era of collective aggression is upon us." The Nationalists' future hangs on the fate of the U.S. proposal...