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...them regularly and earnestly. But he took care never to ask his wives' advice, for Brigham Young had forbidden it, saying roundly: "All their council & wisdom . . . don't weigh as much with me as the weight of a Fly Tird. Excuse me for my vulgarity ..." Lee was kinder and more considerate than his leader. His pen portraits of his wives are among his most vivid...
...personal affront. Long after, she would say: "I could never understand why Hartley was taken away from me. I mean to speak to God about it when I see Him." Laurette fought her alcoholism by herself, and she finally conquered the ugly sides of her own character. She became kinder to others, frank with herself. It was a matter of pride with her not to give up alcohol entirely but to learn to control it. This war with her own weakness is described by her daughter with a candor that never sacrifices dignity. When Laurette Taylor shows the dimensions...
...orthodoxy for its own sake, Dr. Schroeder believed that in their scramble for faith and religious security, postwar Americans had sacrificed the "moral naiveté" which had made his own generation "mount ethical horses and ride off rapidly in every direction," convinced that they could make the world "a kinder, more beneficent" place...
...gratitude are obscured by one defect of which there isn't the slightest hope that Americans can be cured because it's in their blood, it's constitutional. It is the craze for improving us, for making us try to be in every way kinder to each other, juster, richer, happier...
...fall solely on the critics' word. "The audience," says Kerr, "has voluntarily surrendered its privilege of judgment." In general, seven favorable reviews will assure a play a run; a general panning will kill it. Actually the critics, who really want people to go to the theater, are often kinder than the public, are frequently berated in letters from disappointed theatergoers. Commented Critic Chapman: "Ticket prices are such that today's theatergoer, demanding a guarantee of his money's worth, wants only the hits . . . This results in the almost disastrous 'hit or-flop' state...