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...constructed along lines so directly opposite to plays dealing with the other Athens that all references to Greece and Grecian society appear dragged in by quotation marks and seem completely out of context. Revolving around a yearling Congressman who identifies himself with his namesake, the play attempts to inject an Old World perspective into the hurly-burly of politics; but long before the end, the author drops his classic approach and blunts his touch on the smooth sides of several dozen random cliches. Like the mantelpiece sculpture of Socrates that turns up in the second act, the result...
...ship to sail. Murphy's immediate demands (for more representation from the rank & file at union negotiations) were only a smokescreen for his major aim: to hold the Mary at Southampton for at least a day, regardless of the cost. If he could do that, he might inject some hope into the fading Merseyside strike...
...Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists which met at Princeton with Professor Albert Einstein as chairman. Possibly it was felt that these suggestions could be roughly lumped under a "World Government" label and were, as such, old stuff. And that the mention of Professor Einstein's name, which once could inject palpitating interest into any news story, has lost its striking edge through his previous pronouncements on the subject. The press is also not always proff against the frame of mind which watches without alarm while former hardware tycoons shape our diplomatic fortunes, but which dismisses all social thinking by scientists...
Perhaps subsequent meetings will inject ramifications and contradictions to justify your reporter, but he was not able to approach, what was undoubtedly the most powerful and provocative work on the program of the expert Walden String Quartet "untroubled," as Mr. Sessions would have it, "by preconceived notions...
...nations of east Europe and China, the United States is interested in the stimulation, the encouragement of the groups of students who will fashion their peace out of the sure mechanism of reason and not from the unstable crucible of hunger-induced irrationality. This country is determined to inject stability into these areas of extreme restlessness, but the stability is not to be the rigidity of paralysis, but the dynamic of steady reconstruction. On this healthful positivism, on the ability of young Greeks, Poles, Austrians and Chinese to break the hunger hold that constricts reconstruction, lies the peace of Europe...