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...Paul's power of prophecy also makes him realize that events are beyond his control. The terrible purpose of the Frement has absorbed him and made him its instrument...
...brides have received such a glittering dowry. For the Kenyon, under the editorship of Critic-Poet John Crowe Ransom for 20 years, became an inspired and inspiring instrument of criticism, offering the work of R.P. Blackmur, Randall Jarrell, Allen Tate, Cleanth Brooks and William Empson...
...instrument-laden jets will be following the eclipse tomorrow but traveling at 600 mph, they are too slow to extend totality by more than a few minutes...
...play that is struggling to be let out from his plays is the saga of the urban loser, frustrated by a world he never made and powerless to control or change it. This is the proposition Feiffer refuses to admit to himself. He still sees the theater as an instrument of social betterment. That is why he writes killer farces like Little Murders and now The White House Murder Case. The thesis is that...
WHILE FILM is the instrument of justice it is also the instrument of men's drives: so that the determination to reveal the truth is not a pure motive, but is qualified by hatred and revenge. Legal lynching, "the law that says if you kill somebody you gotta be killed," is no better than the extra-legal kind. Thus the tracks-in, which increase in number about the middle of the film, lose our complete acquiescence in moving forward...