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Beard's defense of Alexander Hamilton is typical of Beard's shift in emphasis. It is true, says Beard, that Hamilton thought of the "people" as a "great beast." But in The Federalist the "bastard brat of a Scotch peddler" (as John Adams called Hamilton) hailed the Constitution as a "people's document." The privilege of the "writ of habeas corpus," which guarantees individuals and groups against arbitrary imprisonment, covered everybody, not merely the "rich, wellborn and able." At one point in the symposium on "A More Perfect Union and Justice," Dr. Smyth tries to get Beard...
...idea is that if you have a baby on your hands who cramps your style, the newly created mothers' aides society will take care of the little brat all evening for two bits an hour...
Says Mr. Hill : "We have no valid tests on this. . . . Besides, the precocious child-actor is apt to be pretty much of a brat." Roger Hill, who was born there, inherited Todd School from his father in 1928. He believes that budding geniuses should be nurtured. Todd's curriculum is designed to prepare boys for college, but extracurricular activities are Hollywoodian: boys paint, act, design stage sets, make sound films, radio speeches...
...kind of grown-up version of the brat in Lillian Hellman's The Children's Hour, Evelyn is no less fiendish but much less frightening. In fact, so much effort is lavished on what she does, and so little on how cleverly she does it, that she ends up by being not frightening but fantastic. The authors were so busy thinking up new villainies for her that they clean forgot to make Guest in the House either tense or tenable. Along with the season's archvillain they have created its prize nitwits: any family bright enough...
Making her first Broadway appearance, 16-year-old Patricia Peardon tears into the role of Judy with engaging gusto. But as Fuffy, Lenore Lonergan (the brat in The Philadelphia Story) runs away with every scene she plays...