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Even if Wright had really been cured, Judge McDonald had another disquieting thought to ponder: if he ruled that lobotomy could correct a criminal urge, would the precedent eventually empty all jails? After long thought, in which he decided not to "take this chance," the Judge said: "If we were to accede to the request that Wright be absolved ... we would soon be overwhelmed by similar requests from many other habitual criminals who are now incarcerated . . . and who would be willing to submit to similar operations. ... I have no confidence in such surgery. Hopes, perhaps, but no confidence...
...blame the slow-paced British cast (headed by Leslie Banks and Sophie Stewart), who "struggle hard not to give the impression that they are foundering in mid-Atlantic." Perhaps the Daily Express meant to be kinder: "A piece that you [should] . . . see whenever something in the news makes you ponder that pregnant question: The Americans, are they human...
...Gallería is the heart of this loosely constructed first novel by ex-G.L, and onetime intelligence officer, John Burns. Sooner or later all his characters drift into it to drink, love, ponder or despair. There is no plot to relate them. Whatever unity Gallery possesses comes from Author Burns's ability to convey a sense of the tragedy that war has brought into the lives of the victors and the vanquished...
Twenty-six kindergarten kids at New York City's P.S. 90 got off their views on war & peace to U.N. Delegate Warren Austin (who promised to ponder them). Teacher Alma Haring, who sent him the message; set it all down just the way they told her..Excerpts...
Change the boards of the symphony into young, active organizations, not figureheads of the diamond horseshoe. Let New York ponder the fact that the Detroit Symphony, withered on the vine four years ago, will pay for itself this season with radio programs, recordings, concerts and moneys from rental of the Music Hall, our permanent home. Culture must be put on a businesslike basis before it can stand on its own. ... If singing jingles can pay for themselves, so can Brahms, Beethoven and Bach...