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David Eli Lilienthal, who will be chairman, is a six-foot, sharp-faced lawyer, Harvard protege of Felix Frankfurter, longtime antagonist of the utility monopolists, who after serving in the Wisconsin...
...overexcited, organ of public conscience. From out of this holy-of-holies stop Beacon Hill have come some of the most astonishing misconceptions of the public stood since the scholastics counted angles on pinpoints, and from this same stern eyric now comes a new concept of what Sin, traditional antagonist of all that was holy in Boston, will mean to New Englanders in these unsettling times...
...people had watched the progress of their onetime ally, Russia, and they had come to a conclusion. From a zenith of popularity just after V-E day, Russia had dropped to a point where most U.S. citizens had decided that she was no longer a friend but an antagonist...
Leon Blum, at the dedication of a monument to Vichy-murdered Georges Mandel in Fontainebleau, came up with a good Gallic symbol of Gallic solidarity: to his political antagonist, Rightist Paul Reynaud, France's Socialist elder statesman gave an unscheduled, non-compulsory buss...
...uncle Creon is her antagonist--Creon, as the Chorus says, the Chorus the ruler who loves to rule. At first she hates him because he has forbidden her brother's burial, but after one tremendous scene in which she withstands his every nuance of guile she realizes that his evil goes far beyond the personal level, and she dies for a greater cause than her first...