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Concerts of old music tend to elicit in the performers a misplaced picty that results in a persistently dragging tempo. With the sole exception of a 12th-century hymn to St. Magnus, no piece on the program suffered in this respect...
Postponing this painful judgment, the Senators have decided to hold hearings to elicit the facts. The trial ritual will be mocked again-as it was in the Army-McCarthy hearings. Witnesses will be heard, and, the committee decided last week, Joe will have the right to cross-examine them. This week Joe demanded that one of his accusers, Senator Ralph Flanders, return from a vacation in Europe and be put under oath as a "complaining witness." Actually, Flanders is no more a "witness" than any other American who can read or look at television. Flanders is a man who says...
...idea that a priest will elicit from workers a true opinion of their company and union is fatuous and naive in the extreme
...they must have forgotten, for, if not, they would recognize Senator McCarthy's telegram crusade for what it is. Like Ponzi, the Senator advertised of the big things to come. Like Ponzi, he invested a little something--the small effort required to elicit extremist telegrams from roughly .0002 percent of the nation. And like Ponzi, he now sits back while the public blows up this gaggle of telegrams into political support...
Since his dismissal, efforts by the students for Lenz, the Queens Citizen's Committee for Dean Lenz and a committee of representatives from liberal, labor, and educational groups headed by Rep. Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. (D, N. Y.) have failed to elicit a hearing from the New York Board of Higher Education...