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...takes up an entire floor of the Museum, it has failed to cover the subject, and it has introduced many superfluous elements. Picking one group that has about fifteen pictures in the show, we can see more clearly just what sort of havoc Doty has wrought with what is generally accepted photographic history. Of the members of Magnum, the photojournalists' cooperative that nursed most of Life's best talent from 1930 to about 1960. Robert Capa, generally conceded the greatest war photographer ever to live, is missing completely: so are Elliot Erwitt and Constantine Manos, both of whom have...
Harvard's fencing squad wrought havoc on an inexperienced Dartmouth team Saturday, destroying the Big Green 19-8 at Hanover...
...Christmas-morning quiet on Pennsylvania Avenue was sundered by a clatter of metal. Out on the White House lawn was an unexpected and most unwelcome package: a 1975 Chevrolet had crashed through a wrought-iron gate at the northwest corner of the grounds and screeched to a halt a few feet from the mansion's north portico...
...Seton [Dec. 23], a truly remarkable Christian, what the Church of Rome does not need is another saint on its calendar. I am convinced that Rome is fiddling while the world burns; the Vatican still clings tenaciously to its medieval "canonization" process, whatever that term means today. Relics, miracles wrought in the name of the person considered for sainthood, etc., ad infinitum, all seem embarrassingly anachronistic. When will the Vatican face up to vital issues threatening the Roman communion? Why does Pope Paul carefully avoid issues like celibacy for diocesan clergy and ordination of women to the priesthood...
This theme remains dim, however. The viewer's thoughts are likely to wander to more pressing issues while battling to keep awake. In all such elaborately wrought plans, for instance, the main honcho always has an incredibly neat set of plans, immaculately typed on an electric typewriter. Who does this for him? Surely he is too busy with his villainy to take the time to sit down at the IBM himself. Does he have a private secretary? Does he phone up Office Temporaries? And what happens to these worthies once they set eyes on his secret plans and type...