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...potential impact. Every line is grossly shouted; there is no shading. As the father, Laurence is too noble--Yeats was not trying to write a tragedy of a noble man fallen, but a picture of a man groveling and depraved, even during his brief flashes of insight into the hopeless nature of his life. And Russell as the son is too wide-eyed, too earnest...
...handy for the squirrels, he was an expert on the theory of finite groups, published more than 800 learned articles, owned one of the best private mathematical libraries in the U.S. But for all his brilliance, Papa Miller had a distracted air that sometimes seemed complete bewilderment. He was hopeless with a car, helpless with a furnace, and he invariably began his sentences with "Maybe I'm wrong...
...combat forces of the United States anywhere. ¶On the prospects of a meeting with Malenkov: We have many examples of different meetings in the past being used for propaganda purposes. He would do anything in the world that he thought would advance peace, but it is perfectly hopeless to call a Big Three meeting until we know there is an honest purpose behind...
...youth from Texas' back prairie, he went to St. Louis to see the World's Fair, and lost all his money matching pennies with a "very agreeable fellow who said he was a Texan, too. from Amarillo." Ever since, Bob has had a hopeless affair with fairs and carnivals, and today he is the best barker Dallas ever had, and one of the best in the awesome tent show of Texas...
...Chaplin, Mr. Potts is funny because he is pitiful. As a plumber over his head in power politics, he represents all of us who are entangled in a cold war too big for us to understand or control. We laugh because, for once, we see somebody more bewildered and hopeless than...