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Actor Evans always holds the stage; he does not always portray his part. His Macbeth at times has a tortured imagination and reckless cruelty, but never a great warrior's strength or a tragic hero's stature. Evans has the instinct of a reciter, a soloist, reaching out with vocal magnetism to the audience rather than working in with his fellow actors on the stage. He doesn't, for example, talk to the murderers of Banquo; the murderers simply seem to be there so that he can talk. He brings more to the play than...
Carried to an abhorrent extreme, the revenge peace would mean the complete "liquidation" of the German state, as Dr. Earnest A. Hooton advocated in a speech at the University of Michigan last Friday. Such reckless statements are welcome to Dr. Goebbels, who undoubtedly considers them the best possible propaganda for uniting the Germans in a fight to the death. Hitler has stated that defeat would mean the utter destruction of the German state; point eight, far from flatly denying that charge, hints that Hitler was right. Wilson's promise of fair and equal treatment morally disarmed the Kaiser and hastened...
Exactly why A.T. & T. stockholders were so reckless was a Wall Street mystery. Many of them ignored the letter sent with the bulky, legally worded prospectus, got no "job-up" letter to enlighten them (something A.T. & T. is neither obliged nor forbidden to do). Another reason was plain carelessness. The rights expired on the Labor Day weekend, when many a shareholder was more interested in golf than gilt-edged bonds...
...year which has passed since I wrote this letter has confirmed practically everything that I said. During this period the administration in Washington has conducted a reckless campaign to the end of getting this country into the European war. We have been told, without any evidence, that America stands in greater danger today that at any previous time in her century and a half of history we have been warned, in bald assertion, that Britain was our first Ine of defense against the German, and that if, Britain fell, Hitter would straightway be on our shores. We have been startled...
Like the troops the correspondents on each side were subject to capture, killing (by decision of an umpire). Reckless "bravery" did not pay. If captured, pressmen were trucked away to the enemy's prison camp, often 200 miles behind the lines, sometimes a full day's drive on truck-blocked roads. They were not released for 24 hours lest they return to the action and give useful information to their side. Amid the continual surprises of open warfare reporters spent half their time fleeing over back roads to escape capture by unexpected parties of the enemy...