Word: musts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...skull is poised with piercing ironic grace, cheek to cheek with his own living skull; the lost eyes stare into the audience as Hamlet says, very quietly, Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come; make her laugh at that...
...which he wrote; today's equivalent fills the neighborhood movie houses. Henry V was seen by an estimated 5% of the people in each U.S. city where it was shown (as against a rough 30-40% who see the average Hollywood movie hit). Some who did see Henry must have gone to see it out of culture-snobbery, or because they were led by the ears. The heartening fact is that the picture better than paid for itself in cold cash, not to mention prestige, in its U.S. run. And for years to come, Henry V and Hamlet will...
...Roman Catholic Church, convinced, through its divine prerogatives, of being the only true church, must demand the right to freedom for herself alone, because such a right can only be possessed by truth, never by error. As to other religions, the church will certainly never draw the sword, but she will require that by legitimate means they shall not be allowed to propagate false doctrine. Consequently, in a state where the majority of the people are Catholic, the church will require that legal existence be denied to error, and that if religious minorities actually exist, they shall have only...
Distasteful Duty. "By whom will the public services be manned? By mediocrity and by hacks? Or by our very ablest citizens? I say it must be the latter . . . We all remember . . . that in the early years of the republic, full-time public service, though at least as distasteful as today, was not thought beneath the talents or the dignity of the ablest and most successful men. By any measure, Mr. Washington and Mr. Jefferson were not the least able citizens of the Commonwealth of Virginia...
...million words, Laski's book is both a general political history of the U.S. and a detailed analysis of American professions, trades, culture and state and federal governments. Every aspect of American life is judged from the standpoint of the militant, orthodox socialist who believes that government planning must replace free enterprise as the cornerstone of democratic life. A dependence on stock socialist phrases thus flaws many parts of the book. The American Democracy, for all its numerous flashes of donnish wit, is also windily repetitive, and some times dated in its judgment...