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...fulcrum of the series, Marshal Matt Dillon sets the mood. He is, says Macdonnell, "a lonely, sad, tragic man . . . a quiet, unhappy, confused marshal; these days we'd send him to an analyst." Like one of his prototypes,* Matt is not all sweetness & light. The girl in the series, Kitty, is "just someone Matt has to visit every once in a while," says Macdonnell. "We never say it, but Kitty is a prostitute, plain and simple...
...verdict, said Acheson, left him confused and disturbed. The board had neither "accepted nor rejected" but had "taken into account" 1) testimony by ex-Communist Louis Budenz who said that Vincent was a Communist, and 2) a finding by the Senate Internal Security subcommittee that Vincent was a fulcrum for pro-Communist influence in the State Department. "I am unable," said Acheson, "to interpret what this means...
...State's vindication of John Carter Vincent. Said the LRB: "Without expressly accepting or rejecting," it had taken into account 1) ex-Communist Louis Budenz' testimony that Vincent was a Communist, and 2) the Senate Internal Security subcommittee's finding that Vincent had been a "principal fulcrum" for pro-Communist influence in the State Department...
...work on a problem calculated to burn the numbers off their slide rules. Its terms: if the country were a rigid plane, encumbered by nothing but its human population, and if every man, woman & child had exactly the same weight, at what point, if placed on a fulcrum, would it achieve exact balance? Object: to find the geographical center of U.S. population...
This comico-tragic instant brings to bear, like the point of a knife, the dilemma of 19th Century Jean Barois and the meaning of his story. It is the fulcrum of the cold, sharp "novel of ideas" which won Novelist Roger Martin du Gard his first critical respect when it was published in France in 1913. Martin du Gard went on to win a Nobel Prize (1937) for his masterwork, The Thibaults, a magnificent cycle of novels about French bourgeois life in the first two decades of the 20th Century...