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During his years at the Medical school George D. Snell wrote his 1930 graduate thesis on "Observations on Three Unit Characteristics of the House Mouse, Short-Ear, Hairless, and Naked, with Special Reference to Linkage." Fifty years later, presumably after dealing with many more mice, he too picked up a Nobel Prize...
This "mystery-play" device, though not particularly clever, nevertheless pulls us through the maze-like plot and through the dizzying Nukespeak of the D.C. policymakers. Indeed, one of the strong points of Kopit's script is his dead-accurate ear for the language and argumentation of Pentagon people...
...emergence of faith and religion. In its extreme manifestations, this is no secret whatever. Iran is run by a spiritual leader who governs ruthlessly according to God's revelations. Our own country is filling up with people of political ambitions who claim to have God's ear. Some spread the gospel of Fundamentalism. Others preach intolerance and hate to giddy television audiences. The preachers smile quite well. These extremists have power, which derives less from dogma than from a deep public need to retrieve the values and comforts of belief. The preachers will be rejected eventually, but the need will...
Heahy, who had turned around after his weak shot, only realized he had scored a goal when the crowd erupted in ear-shattering applause...
...understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller but for want of an understanding ear...