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...because it is much more interested in manifestations than motives, more preoccupied with the how of Salem than the why. It is what the story stresses, more than the story itself, that reveals its bifocal nature, its linking of "witch-hunting" past & present, its absorption with parallels-despite the axiom that parallel lines never meet. Moral indignation rather than insight has combed over the facts; and in the end The Crucible not only omits something from its picture of Salem, but takes the life out of its inhabitants. The psychological tragedy of fierce Calvinist repression that erupted in the hysterical...
...rider and his old campaigner approached the final obstacle. It was a 5-ft.-high white rail, where almost every other contestant had come a cropper. Up & over went Democrat, cleanly, bringing down a storm of applause. Later, grinning modestly, Billy explained his success by quoting an old jumping axiom: "The horse makes the rider...
...Congratulations on your May 26 reporting of MacArthur's slur at generals in the White House ... I never cease to marvel at the many facets of the MacArthur personality, but this one really takes the cake. What makes Mac think he is an exception to the old political axiom-that generals make poor presidents? It smacks of an inflated ego, plus a childish fit of pique, i.e., "if I can't have it, neither...
...live with him in his cavern . . .?" Jane had often answered "Never, never!" to such proposals. But at last she weakened and agreed, suggesting they live with her mother. To this, he growled: "The man should bear rule in the house and not the woman. This is an eternal axiom . . . It is the nature of a woman . . . to cling to the man for support and direction...
...tipoff on the Administration's motive came inadvertently last week from Price Stabilizer Ellis Arnall. "The steel situation," said Arnall, "is the stuff on which campaigns-political campaigns-are won & lost." Politician Harry Truman was obviously operating on the axiom of political arithmetic that there are more votes in Big Labor than in Big Steel...