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...symbol of a social movement, or the hero of Mexican folklore--in short, he could not be the real Zapata or even a believable facsimile. And with its central figure reduced to such a nonentity, the tale of Emiliano Zapata becomes a trail of disjointed, purposeless blood and thunder...
...ever gets rolling again, the chances are that the most formidable Red-held mountains will have to be bypassed and isolated. Storming them would be bloody and purposeless. On cold, clear nights, you can hear the beaver-busy Communists digging at the frozen earth from end to end of the front...
...Captain Brassbound's Conversion," the story of how a woman converts a purposeless brigand into a purposeful one, is supposedly dominated by the female lead, Cicely Wayneflete. As played by Ann Revere this character is weak, inconsistent, and incapable of forcing the last act climax that Shaw envisioned. According to the script she is a woman who is to have her own way, and yet the awe with which her presence is greeted at the end of the first act hardly seems merited. One indeed wonders why her every word is met with instantaneous servility...
Your editorial entitled "Unseen Spectators" is a wilderness of nonsense. "Since debating is primarily a spectacle, it is purposeless without spectators," it says. Harvard debating does not attract spectators, and "the result has been the forensic feebleness illustrated last week by the double loss to Yale." This is blockhead thinking...
...just heard, so please stay tuned in. . . Friends, our guest, William Frank Buckley, Jr., member of the Yale University debating team that bowled over Oxford on Socialism, has certainly given the rest of us something to think about--about the responsibilities of university and college trustees for purposeless policies in education. For free printed copies of this interview just drop a postcard to AMERICA'S FUTURE in care of the station to which you are now listening. . . Ask for "Buckley of Yale." . . . Now this is Bill Slater, saying goodbye--and reminding you, wherever you are, whatever you do, SPEAK...