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...hand guides the magazine more carefully in the future, "Radditudes" will find itself with a chronic weakness. In "Afraid of Happiness," for instance, Miss Susan Seidman makes a brave attempt at satirizing a special horrid type of love-story--the sort that appears in periodicals of the "True Romance" ilk. For the most part, she achieves her effect subtly, but she spoils the total impression by an occasional broad and incongruous touch. The borderline between burlesque and satire is a hazy one; nonetheless, the two don't mix well. A few enlightened omissions from "Afraid of Happiness" could have avoided...
...loyal American would criticize the committee's action. Eisler, perhaps the key figure of a number of his ilk who are boring from within, has no loyalty except to Communism. He wants to replace a free U.S. democracy with a sovietized state. This was a case of clearly discernible danger to the U.S., and the U.S. could applaud the Thomas Committee and the FBI for being on the alert...
Gerhardi billed his play as a "satire on reincarnation," equipping it with twentieth-century characters incarnated from every other reasonable period of history: Catherinc the Great, Genghis Khan, and others of their ilk. Perhaps his idea was worthwhile; at any rate his results were...
Such a statement, like countless others of its dated ilk, puts the employer on a humanitarian pedestal at the expense of the realities of the situation--which in this case indicate that the University was in its premature action merely trying to avoid the annoyance and public embarrassment of a prolonged strike such as that recently endured by Columbia University...
...organization in America today--the issue which the American Veterans Committee faced in its Des Monies convention last summer and which threatens imminently in the ranks of the CIO: the issue of Communist domination. It is a question which on the one hand Congressman Rankin and others of his ilk have obscured by their irresponsible use of the epithet "Red" so as to render the word well-nigh meaningless, and on the other by the Communists in their unwillingness to declare themselves as such. By bringing up the question at an open meeting, the Liberal Union has done much...