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...fair words on both sides did not mean that the millennium had come in Steel-or in the rest of U.S. industry. But the fair words were by no means all guff. U.S. management and labor have been moving, through stormy days, toward a very much closer relationship. For some years, the main source of trouble has been the U.S. Government's role in the labor-management field. The steel strike was the most disastrous example to date of how the alliance between labor and Government can mess up collective bargaining. Phil Murray was riding high last week...
...readable; whether he called them "entertainments" or not, his stories were read for sheer pleasure by people who ignored his terrifying glimpses of sin and despair. Even the chilling study of pure evil in Brighton Rock (1938) was written off by one English reviewer as "so much guff." Nevertheless, Brighton Rock was a turning point for Greene. He had discovered that "a Catholic is more capable of evil than anyone...
...that point, the play ends with the girl and her mother crushed and hopeless, the son ready to follow his dreams into the merchant marine. In the movie, the visitor's line of guff, heavily larded with Dale Carnegie psychology, brings the girl out of her cocoon, eager to greet another gentleman caller who comes up the stairs at the upbeat fadeout...
...wrote: "It seemed . . . that the rioters of Union Square had gone far beyond the rights granted them in the Constitution. They were giving aid and comfort to the enemy and they should have been thrown in jail and tried for treason. Don't give me that guff about civil liberties . . . The Daily Worker going on the boost for Russia in this war is just as mixed up with the enemy as Seoul City Sue who broadcasts to our troops in Korea . . . I'm sure that if most Americans should walk through the crowded wards [of wounded] they would...
...Jefferson had cried; but the crusade was to roll and swell beyond even Jefferson's wildest dreams. The nation passed through the age of the one-room district schoolhouse, of the birch rod and the rattan cane, the primer, Noah Webster's famous speller and the Me Guff ey readers. Ever since the indefatigable Horace Mann had stormed through Massachusetts preaching the cause of better schools ("In a Republic, Ignorance is a Crime!"), successive generations of young Americans had been learning the three Rs as Dart of their birthright...