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...third and Williams is up. Even the little thrill of pleasure that makes me quiver to think that I can predict a play is not enough to offset the tragic disappointment when the great Ted has to drop his bat and sidle to first. It is the great flaw in the American psyche. And how would you like to be the guy (poor bastard) who they walk Williams to get to. He's the fellow who will then hit into a double play. Imagine how he feels, letting his teammates down to the sound of icy silence from the stands...
Visitors found only one flaw: the soloists were a notch below the rest of the production. The Moscow News critic, D. Rabinovich, had another complaint to make: the crowning of a Czar had been made altogether too happy an event. (Even Mussorgsky, no Communist, had not intended that.) Wrote Critic Rabinovich: "One does not feel the forced note in their 'gaiety'. . . the very magnificence of the coronation scene creates a false impression of brightness and joy instead of its being somber and sinister...
...charge is made that this nominee's connection with the Acheson-Lilienthal report, covering the problem of physical, atomic controls, disclosed a flaw in his reliability as a guardian of our atomic secrets because this report did not go to a finality in prescribing the ultimate security system demanded by the later Baruch report. It seems to me that this criticism is irrelevant, incompetent and immaterial...
...undergraduate life." Today, with their failure to organize small, departmental discussion groups, to encourage more than the occasional forums held in two of the Houses, in short, to fill in the educational holes caused by a threadbare tutorial system, this "utter disregard" has become more basic than the flaw it was in 1938. It is forcing the first regular postwar class applying for admission to the Houses to do so only on the basis of their merits, not at all as Houses in the prewar sense, but as mere physical plants...
There is, fortunately a basic flaw in his charge, and it can be found in the omnipresence of the word "naivete" in his allegations. If what Professor Elliott says is true--the all Western liberals are hopelessly naive--there can be but little hope for any of us, and certainly no sense in groping forward. The fact is that liberals have ever been called naive, and the fight has not yet been lost. It is just possible, then, that naivete is not as prevalent as Professor Elliott thinks and that the American delegates, having spent a good fraction of their...