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...House, the Prime Minister rose, nervously shuffled his notes and placed them neatly on the dispatch box in front of him. "It's been twelve years since I last spoke in this House," he began.* In the next few minutes it became all too plain that the cozier, clubbish style of the House of Lords had blunted Douglas-Home's debating thrust, and his supporters missed his usual pungent wit. After a long, meandering preamble, he launched into a lackluster exposition of ambitious government policies for the coming year. "The formula," said he flatly, "is growth without inflation...
...education. He detested the chaos of the elective system, deplored the over-specialization of college teachers. "It is through them," said he at his inauguration, "that we attempt to give our boys a liberal education, which the teachers themselves [have] not achieved." Meiklejohn's goal: to give country-clubbish Amherst a stronger taste of intellectual excellence-and a greater sense of educational purpose...
Every character is a well known symbol--the befuddled liberal (Tracy), the reactionary clubbish business man, the intellectual Jew, the American Legion bartender. The dialogue has been so widely used it should be a familiar acquaintance of every theatre goer the eulogy on the meaning of democracy, the reminiscence over 'how we first met," the confused self-analysis while wandering in and out of a maze of chaises lounges...
...Inspector Howard W. Nugent of the State Police at Hawthorne had a good friend in nearby Chappaqua named Frederic Victor Guinzburg who is a sculptor. Fred Guinzburg, whose wife studied psychiatry, psychology and anatomy for years before she took up lithography as a profession, went around to the country clubbish State Police barracks at Hawthorne to see what he could do with the rotting mass of flesh and bone that was once a human being...