Word: musts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After reading your July 13 account of the Warren-Mazo explosion and Warren's 1957 petty blackballing of Nixon, I can only say there must be many today whose faith in Chief Justice Warren's considered judgment is now a thing of the past. That such a man is our Chief Justice must make "the lady in the harbor" wince...
Finletter briefly described the background of the present American position and then speculated as to the "uncertainties of the next decade for which our foreign policy must prepare." He emphasized the crucial importance of winning Afro-Asian respect, promoting a split between Russia and China, preventing Russo-Chinese military superiority, strengthening NATO by giving it additional political and military functions, achieving peace in the Near East, and controlling the weapons of the future...
Inkeles and Bauer conclude that if Americans are not equal to the task of maintaining freedom, they must leave the Soviets to set the pattern of human existence...
...Aiuola moves on three different levels, the philosophic, the political, and the intimately personal; yet all three are perfectly fused. It observes the classic unities of time and place and occurs against a magnificent backdrop of mountains (which the set of the current production has denied us). The theme must owe something to Betti's lifelong career as a magistrate: it tells of the final human hunger to make sense of things--political catastrophies, the death of those we love--by restoring the concepts of guilt and innocence, punishment and choice, in all their dreadful nobility. Only by forcing...
...opening night last Tuesday, most of the Tufts players seemed bent more on obscuring Betti's genius than on revealing it. Much of the trouble must no doubt be attributed to the inevitable pressures of summer stock on a small, young, and inexperienced company; the relentless demand for an entire new production each week cannot help but produce some shaky premieres, with cues missed and whole speeches being dropped right and left. One had the sense of watching a late rehearsal rather than an actual performance, in fact, and it is therefore particularly difficult to pass judgment...