Word: formulas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though conflicts were bound to arise between a Republican Congress and a Democratic President, Harry Truman said he would be guided by "a simple formula: to do in all cases . . . without regard to political considerations, what seems to me to be for the welfare of all our people . . . I pledge faith with faith and promise to meet good will with good will...
...granting the excellence of these scenes, and the genuineness of the play's problem, the fact remains that either the problem could not be written into a three-act play or merely that Hart was incapable of doing so. Failing that, he has fallen back on the formula which made his "Lady in the Dark" such a success, the dream sequence. Thus with the aid of four (or is it five?) voyages into the tortured unconscious of Christopher Blake, Hart manages to pad out his play to the conventional length. Although they try mightily to be alternately charming and terrifying...
...wealthy New York lawyer ("where I learned to hate Jews and Negroes"), Loomis moved to Atlanta last winter with the intention of "starting something." Although the loose-mouthed rantings of Yankee Loomis were hotly denounced by civic-minded Atlantans, he was quickly able to find a following. His formula: "We tell the people what they want to hear. We excite them. Then we organize them...
While the lower ranks were granted blanket pay boosts, associate and full professors will get increases under a new formula set up on an individual basis...
Since Vincent Sheean's immensely successful Personal History in 1935, neither he nor many of his successors has succeeded notably with that difficult formula: the journalistic catchall which mixes autobiographical adventure, eyewitnessing of disaster, punditry, prophecy and philosophy. Some have seemed too wise after the event; many have not seemed wise enough before it. Drew Middleton's Our Share of Night is a welcome exception. It is written with rare honesty and simplicity. Best of all is his reason for writing, stated not in a self-conscious foreword but in the last sentence of the book: "Now perhaps...