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...Crimson's passing attack, which was sloppy at the outset, functioned with precision in the last three periods...
Donald Ogden Stewart has brought forth a new play which falls at the outset from paucity of drama inherent in its very choice of situation. Mr. Stewart intends well. It's too bad his original conception was such that the final result fails to catch the audience's imagination...
Goldfarb contended that the attitude some Council members have toward the Dean's Office is bad. "The crux of the problem," he stated, "is whether the Council is sincerely trying to get Dean Watson to change the rules. if you (the Council) are going to be passive at the outset by claiming that nothing can be done, nothing will be done...
...dangers latent in Communism need not have awaited the developments of this whole century to be fully realized; they were already there ... for the whole world to read, decades before Communism had at its disposal the world's most highly organized war machinery. At the outset. . . men failed to realize the full character and magnitude of the challenge of Communism mainly because their sight was concentrated on the political and the quantitative . . . The spiritual significance of Communism simply eluded men's vision . . . Today ... those who see only the political, social, economic and military threat of Communism miss...
Only the Beginning. The debate was not going to be settled by quotations from the past or generalities of the moment. The Great Debate was only beginning. At its outset, however, Robert Taft had laid down a major alternative to the present wavering course of U.S. policy, and he had done it with a firmness and a clarity not yet achieved by the Truman Administration...