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...with the profoundest reluctance that I take issue with the Dean's estimate. His assumption that the 30's climate served to accent the economics of The Little Foxes, and that the 60's do not, may be valid; but to acquiesce in and admire this development is to lose track of Miss Hellman and to underestimate her work. Simple avarice cannot have been The Little Foxes' overriding target, as the Dean would wish it to be, and mere human decency cannot have been its message. The economic metaphor encompassing the play is too grand and too well constructed...
...accents the justified doubts of everyone she nears, creating and defending a world in which she might sleep with her brother. The play may be other things in other productions or even on other nights. But Thursday it was an account of exploitation, unrepenting exploitation because in the profoundest, most terrifying sense, necessary. Love is here a willingness to be exploited, to hold back the words of the thoughts of objective considerations. Love is a willingness not to see and, failing that, not to know what is seen; innocence is an instinctive readiness to compromise, to assume compassion everywhere...
...nation's technology and communications had far outstripped its daily newspapers, which remained local, parochial and, for the most part, ineffably stodgy; the few magazines of comment were not widely circulated. "I do not know any problem in journalism," Luce said later, "which can be usefully isolated from the profoundest questions of man's fate." Yet, he allowed mischievously: "I am all for titillating trivialities. I am all for the epic touch. I could almost say that everything in TIME should be either titillating or epic or starkly, supercurtly factual...
...patient's concern, his uneasiness, about doctors and doctoring is deeply ingrained. Because mankind has been so utterly and helplessly dependent on him, the doctor touches man's profoundest anxieties, eliciting both nervous humor and distrust. Said Voltaire: "Doctors pour drugs of which they know little to cure diseases of which they know less, into human beings of whom they know nothing." George Bernard Shaw gibed that doctors score only triumphs, since their mistakes are always buried. Over the ages, doctors have compounded both the awe and the anxiety by acting as a self-anointed priesthood whose rites...
...uniform grey, they did deepen the shafts of research, put new emphasis on the importance of thorough documentation, pave the way for the current use of computers to analyze voting patterns and population shifts. But electronic aids can carry a historian only so far. "Some of the profoundest problems of history are not amenable to statistical analysis," says Yale's C. Vann Woodward, historian of the American South. "Everything still must be digested by one man sitting at his desk." And that man, argues Schlesinger, is the better historian for having got up from the desk occasionally. He concedes...