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...this the same fearless press that proclaimed to the world that our constitutional rights were trampled by its exclusion at the Jelke trial...
Many of the critics were awed. "It is outrageous and impossible, but it comes off," said News Chronicle Critic Elizabeth Frank. "As Captain Ahab, Welles has devoured the essence of the living theater, the lustiness of the Elizabethans and the fearless, innocent eye of the barnstorming Victorians." The Daily Mail critic thought that Welles the adapter-director got in the way of Welles the actor, allowing "too many words to impede his action . . . But when the play does move . . . the whole theater shudders with the fury of man and mam mal alike...
Author Crompton has practically nothing but praise for the hunting, or solitary, wasps. They are smart, pertinacious, utterly fearless. Shooting down flies, beetles, hoppers, caterpillars, they work for mankind. It is their thieving relations, the so-called "social" wasps, says Crompton, that have given the family such a bad name. In a righteously separate chapter on these bad actors, he reads an indictment against the yellow jackets that terrorize the summer terrace, filch from jam jars and deliver powerful stings that hurt humans for a week. The hunting wasps, says Crompton, are not to be smeared with guilt of association...
Skillful, steady and utterly fearless, Vuky wasted no time. He gunned his Hopkins Special into a fierce duel with Jack MrGrath's Hinkle Special, and the two men began to run away with the race. Behind them, mechanical trouble thinned the field. Then McGrath's mount sputtered to a halt with ignition failure. Bill Vukovich was alone in the lead...
Like newborn colts, just experiencing first impressions, the contributors to the first Freshman Review wobble through their first fearless but awkward steps. As Archibald MacLeish says in his extremely frank foreword, "There is nowhere . . . the signature of incontestable talent." The stories are in many places rough and virtually formless, yet they are, at least, frank and unhesitantly autobiographical...