Word: defections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kirk is too well aware of the imperfect nature of man to suppose that the world's happiness is just around the corner. He can hardly be called an optimist, and he suffers from the built-in defect of all who distrust specific programs-he has none of his own to propose. But he has faith in the accumulated wisdom of the past, in the ultimate integrity of the individual, in a relationship between God and man that will give life a meaning it cannot otherwise have...
...that many of their inner problems showed up clearly in their writing. The introverts had difficulty connecting their letters; the timid tended to squeeze all theirs together. Gradually, Trillat concocted a set of corrective exercises designed to give children a sense of "continuity, creation and equilibrium." In overcoming a defect in any one of these elements, said he, a child must first develop a feeling for rhythm, melody and harmony...
...gaining stature as the play progresses. As Launcelot Gobbo, a clown, Michael Pollatsek injects some humor into the early scenes by cleverly contrived pomposity and overacting. Ernest Eugene Pell, on the other hand, gives a somewhat too unobtrusive, if competent, performance as Antonio, the Merchant. Yet the only serious defect in the acting of these and the other members of the large cast is their sloppyness in meeting cues. If Smithies subjects them to a little more discipline, they should be much more polished in subsequent performances. Yet all the rough spots of the opening night can still not blot...
...Students for Eisenhower" last night unanimously approved Korn's proposal for a poll in the near future and another one in the early fall to defect changes in undergraduate opinion after the two political conventions...
...affair, like the Hiss case, raised the momentous question: What could bring intelligent and apparently devoted servants of the state to defect to the enemy...