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...production reduces the lifelikeness without achieving anything larger than life. Desire Under the Elms need only be compared with the great run of facile, cut-to-measure plays to reveal how uncompromisingly O'Neill aspired. But it need only be compared with brooding, grey-toned work that does possess breadth and grandeur-Thomas Hardy's, for instance-to reveal how distinctly O'Neill fell short...
...asked and answered continuously: in speeches, reports, official investigations and persistent probing by the press. Not so in the case of the AEC. All definite figures about its performance-from laboratories and uranium mines to finished atom bombs-are beyond the reach of the public. The men who possess the facts are forbidden on pain of death (Atomic Energy Act of 1946) to communicate them. For all the taxpayer knows, the AEC may be dropping his money down a bottomless hole...
...free speech, free worship, ownership of property, equality before the law-all these are mutually dependent for their existence. Thus, when shallow critics denounce the profit motive inherent in our system of private enterprise, they ignore the fact that it is an economic support of every human right we possess and that, without it, all rights would soon disappear...
...vote is liable to such penalties as a raise in his taxes, a cut in his salary-even disqualification for life from public office. Another, even more compelling, warning was given on the radio: those who fail to vote risk loss of the two most treasured documents that Spaniards possess: food and tobacco ration cards. Despite such pressure, only about 70% of the eligible heads of families turned out at the polls last week...
...respectable, cultured, well-behaved and poised, proud, quiet and refined, clean-minded, meek and immaculate, delicate, tender, bighearted, lovable, unselfish, unspoiled, generous and ambitious. I don't gossip, I'm not vengeful, don't gamble or drink, have rare dexterity, am supermundane, possess savoir faire. I'm perspicacious, perceptive, euphemistic, strong, healthy, idealistic, make my own clothes, hats and bags, do my own hair, cook and love music...