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...deployed 340 recruiters to find 2,000 new graduates, figures to wind up with only 1,500 or so. Chicago's Inland Steel sweetened its 1966 salaries by as much as 8%, still fell so short of engineers that it began scouring Canadian campuses. Illinois Bell Telephone recruiters confess that "we even hired a theology student last month. He is going into public relations or the commercial...
...those who share their goals. Second only to the fear that criticism will be suppressed is the fear of critics that they will be found in association with someone who, for whatever eccentric reason, has developed a latter day affection for Ho Chi Minh. This is silly. I do confess to wishing that all who are concerned about Vietnam would be more concerned with winning friends and influencing their fellow citizens in effective fashion...
Horrid quasar Near or far, This truth to you I must confess; My heart for you is full of hate O super star, Imploded gas, Exploded trash, You glowing speck upon a plate. Of Einstein's world you've made a mess...
...reactions of the townspeople, falsely accused of witchcraft by Abigail, the depraved 18-year-old, closely parallel the response to the "Are you now or have you ever been...?" of the HUAC hearings. When, John Proctor, the play's hero, agrees to confess his own sins but refuses to "name names," he is repeating Lillian Hellman's stand before the Committee; The Crucible is a textbook of such reactions...
...without overstatement. As a result, her performance is never predictable, her hysterical fits and moodiness convincing. Libby Franck has perhaps the hardest part, that of Mary Warren, the Proctors' impressionable housekeeper; she pulls it off neatly, particularly at the end of the second act, when Proctor forces her to confess her part in the fraud...