Word: astraye
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...shows that an American can write a serious musical which is theatrically effective. The libretto--which he wrote himself--is concise with a welcome absence of trivia. The arias get somewhere and the words are skillfully treated in the music. Only once does he allow himself to be led astray by his social conscience into a long scene in which the Negroes make fun of the gossipping society at Regina's ball...
...fascist conceptions which had led part of our youth astray have vanished. In the some way, education is at present no longer considered a privilege and a diversion for the sons and daughters of wealthy and influential people...
...impossible: they had found a way to simplify the "I see the cat" prose long purveyed by the older pulps. Like the pulps, the comics generally pictured handsome heroes with hearts of gold, equally handsome villains with chests of gold, and beautiful heroines with obvious reasons for being led astray. The moral in all the stories was dutifully plain: justice and virtue eventually triumphed...
...pastors' lawyers also plugged their clients' cultural guilt as proof that they had been led astray. Intoned one: "The defendants were not only obedient tools, they were ideologically convinced tools. The defendants are victims of a foreign influence." Another made it even plainer where his sympathies really lay. "My client," he said, "is a weak-willed person [who] sold out to the Anglo-Americans. I ask for one year in prison for my client. If he does not like the way I am defending him, he ought to be frank...
...assistant." It was Donald Hiss, not Alger, who had been his assistant. Said Acheson: "This whole matter of confusion of two men has arisen out of the testimony of my former colleague, Mr. Adolf Berle [TIME, Jan. 17] ... Mr. Berle's memory has gone badly astray...