Word: guiltlessly
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...There are trigger-happy, sadistic law officers in the South, too many of them. But I challenge Mr. Sprigle to produce any sheriff who has either won or even run on such a platform, who was ever re-elected after a term characterized by the slaying of guiltless, unarmed Negroes. Mr. Sprigle is guilty of slanted selectivity throughout his narrative...
...really wanted to campaign against scientists, even Thomas wouldn't have started with a man as guiltless as Bureau of standards head Edward Condon," Professor Weisskopf said...
...goose-chases. Mason does a credible job as a doctor who is frustrated by his lack of control over mortality, and who plans his revenge as a gesture of independence. Mason the murderer, with a body on his hands, contrasts effectively with a disenchanted country pill-roller who is guiltless, but parttles of the hundreds he has "killed' in his practice. Further contrast comes when Mason scampers behind a railing to hide his crime from a gardener coming home whistling hymns. The gardener, by the way, is the only one who doesn't succumb to the Mason Look, but perhaps...
...brief statement: "All my life I have . . . worked for the Russian people. . . . But it has become clear to me that my work, like that of the whole Russian people, is beneficial to the Soviet regime and not to themselves. No nation is more exploited or rather enslaved. . . . Millions of guiltless men . . . have been put into concentration camps. . . . Actually, the entire Soviet Union is a concentration camp. . . . Even men belonging to the closest entourage of the dictator do not feel safe. . . . This is why the great majority of the Russian people hate the Soviet regime. . . . And this is the reason...
...best man can expect from this vale of sorrow is to be able o live with courage and die with dignity. Tying up this joyous philosophy in a neat bundle, the final curtain finds the innocent lovers, Mio and Miriamne, bulletriddled and lifeless, while the judge who sentenced the guiltless man to the chair, the real murderer, and a craven coward who shielded the killer, go their merry way, presumably troubled by nothing except their consciences...