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...philosophical overtones about faith-which blot out the earlier and sharper issue of compromise-Joan of Lorraine is too trickily written, too full of backstage triviality, too discontinuous in its drama to be more than a serious stunt. Yet Joan's story, even when told piecemeal and with no particular eloquence, can still vibrate when enacted by someone suggesting Joan's stature-as Actress Bergman proves...
Rooted in racial and economic prejudices as outmoded as Salem witch-trials, the present United States immigration policy of restriction stands as a defenseless blot on our national conscience. On ethical grounds,-America, founded and populated by millions escaping political or religious persecution, is irrevocably committed to liberal immigration. But humanitarian reasons have been secondary to a people who grudgingly legalize entry for 39,000 Eastern and Southern Europeans annually, while 850,000 wallow homeless in Allied DI' camps alone. The causes of American inaction are deeper and deserve examination...
...They violate that fundamental principle of American law that a man cannot be tried under an ex post facto statute. The hanging of eleven men convicted at Nürnberg will be a blot on the American record that we shall long regret...
...Aristocracy. Through the crag's proud centuries, a squalid village had groveled 500 feet below on the poplar-lined banks of the river Lot. (Dr. Faure's daughters regarded the village as "une saleté dégoûtante," a blot on creation...
...said the Blot, "but..." His eye caught a wisp of smoke curling up around his baggy red and yellow pantaloons. "Zounds!" he squealed. Rising to the occasion, the Jester yawned and preened himself lazily. Then, with a sudden leap, he huried the flaming sofa through the window. As it crashed to the street below, 11 of Cambridge's little red fire wagons arrived. "Obviously a case of grandeur delusions," chorused the fire fighters as they looked away blushing. "They think they're Ibisos...