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...most popular hour? Kennedy smiles, pours over Mr. Barre's chart and says, "An IBM machine couldn't tell that Professor Jones' lumbago demands a ground floor lecture hall, or that Abernathy finds inspiration only with a northern light." No Scientla ex machina for Harvard...
British Captain Clinton, an army officer among the camp's airmen, had been a university student before the war. The scrap of paper blown to freedom by the wind made him think of the deus ex machina that so often solved Greek tragedies. His thoughts turned to the fall of Troy. Suddenly he "found himself running ... an idea racing through his mind . . . Peter-he must find Peter...
...ought-we-to-do-its that would scarcely tax the reflective powers of a Cambridge High junior. The point--that, like Joan, we may have to make small, bitter concessions in serving the greater concept--becomes clear to the heroine through a puzzling scene in which the deus ex machina descends with a thud to the stage...
...boyhood and early manhood of Pip, who has spent his early years with his sister, the wife of a blacksmith. There are two completely separate plots, which Dickens, with characteristic wantonness, connects at the end by means of pure coincidence. Condemned as lack of skill, this deus ex machina shows only that the author was more interested in character, scene, and the fate of his hero than he was in the mechanics of plot...
...tonic for the faint-hearted, the thriller consists of a running battle of wits between the Professor and his partner in crime, the very determined District Attorney (Raymond Massey), and the murdered man's blackmailing body-guard (Dan Duryea). "Deus ex machina" solves the apparently impossible situation in an ending of which the studio (International) seems unduly proud...