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Sidney Kingsley's adaptation of the novel by Arthur Koestler is magnificently clear in presenting its ideas--that the revolutionary dreams of Communism have no reality today, and that those who disregard the means for the end are inevitably crushed by their own logic. The setting in which these ideas are presented is a fitting one: a prison filed with men who are doomed, and with the guards who are less men than automatons...
...having the best interests of the free peoples of the world in mind, took it upon himself to direct the overall policy of the U.N. forces without bothering to consult either the U.N. council or his own Commander in Chief. If an individual can take it on himself to disregard the United Nations in such important matters of policy then of course he is defecting the very principles of the U.N., and thus, in the long run, defeating the chances of eventual world peace. Laurence Alpert Harvard World Federalists
Said General Ridgway: "[If the enemy] wants to exercise his advantages by virtue of his superior numbers and his complete disregard for the value of human life, he may make a considerable penetration. But it doesn't give me any serious concern whatever. I am quite sure that everybody in the Eighth Army believes that if he gets a penetration we will check it and destroy...
...field of morals Dr. Menninger finds psychiatry on the defensive. " 'Psychiatrists are wicked men,' we are told. 'They persuade their patients to a Godless, immoral philosophy. They repudiate the conscience; they advocate irresponsible self-expression to the disregard of moral...
...grab-and-hit tactics (clutching with his right glove while pounding with his left). But Matthews was taking care of himself. He boxed with Marquess of Queensberry manners, but kept thumping powerful lefts & rights to Murphy's body. Later, when Murphy continued to bore in with a splendid disregard of the punishment he'd taken, Matthews showed that he has more than one specialty by jabbing punishing lefts to Murphy's head. Meanwhile, Matthews had been absorbing Murphy's best punches without too great damage, had quickly solved the puzzle of Murphy's windmill style...