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...mistake, the renationalization of steel, cloaked under efficiency or national interest, will bring other industries under the shadow of the Red Flag. To imagine that present socialist policies, even though they still bear the mark of middle-of-the-road politics, will continue under a larger parliamentary majority is akin to living like Alice in Wonderland. There is little doubt that the left wing of the Labor party will eventually rise and demand complete control of industry...
...ordinariness (even morally commendable ordinariness) is closely akin to plain dullness. Frequently The Negro Cowboys slows down to a heavy-footed stagger. Since Negroes were at home in Western society, reminiscences about their exploits get just as mawkish as any Western yarns...
During the war, Murrow hired a talented broadcasting staff: Eric Sevareid, Howard K. Smith, William Shirer, Charles Collingwood. His generosity to the people who worked for him was legendary, and around the networks something akin to a Murrow cult was formed. Eventually one CBS man, who had had enough, organized a Murrow Ain't God Club, and Murrow himself applied for charter membership...
Until now, U.S. pills have relied on a synthetic progestin, akin to but more powerful than natural progesterone, to prevent ovulation by spreading its abundance over 20 days in mid-cycle. Only a minute quantity of estrogen was put in the same pill to reduce side effects. But as long as 20 years ago, Boston's Dr. Fuller Albright pointed out that a high level of estrogens in the first two-thirds of the cycle would prevent ovulation. To him, this indicated a practicable method of contraception...
...storming and shouting around the stage with enormous enthusiasm and exuberance. Amafume Onoge as the prophet Jeroboam delighted the house with abrupt switches from pompous ranting at his flock on stage, to sly soft-voiced asides to the audience explaining his true despicable motives. In the role of Chume, Akin Adewole '66 was as athletic and skilled at fighting with his wife as he was playing line-man for the Crimson soccer team this fall. And Cordelian Mbawuike was completely convincing as his ferocious spouse--especially in the scene in which she cried to bystanders, "He is going to kill...