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...Ruinous Route? "It is our obligation, as I see it, if we belong to one of the groups for which the Government has made special provision, to use that help responsibly and constructively. It is up to us to do our level best to re-establish speedily our own equality of opportunity ... I believe that when this has once been accomplished, and my special requirements satisfied, then certainly [as a member of any special group] I do not need, do not deserve, and should not accept any special help from the Government. If I do so, I help deny equality...
...Michael Benthall has directed for the Old Vic, the love poetry and the subtly melancholy atmosphere it distills form the pervading element, and the contrasting comic elements are very much played down. There is a distinct lack of any sort of vitality, but in Twelth Night vitality can be ruinous if not restrained, and its absence can be borne. The most basic need is for technique and taste in the production rather than energy and passion, and the former are the qualities that the Vic is best equipped to provide...
...pulled out from under them by their political leader. Dwight Eisenhower, after years of insisting that the internal affairs of the Congress were none of his business, had suddenly decided to take a hand. On the record, Ike was merely pleading with Senate Republicans not to get into a ruinous fight. Actually, he was doing everything possible to defeat the Republican Senators who were battling on his behalf...
...elections went a long way toward laying to rest the notion of Roman Catholicism as a ruinous national political liability. Even in heavily Catholic Massachusetts, Senator Jack Kennedy's huge 869,000-vote plurality clearly cut across all religious lines. In Pennsylvania Democrat David Lawrence became the first Catholic Governor in history. In California Catholic Pat Brown was elected Governor by a landslide. And in Minnesota, where Catholicism had long been considered a fatal handicap outside St. Paul and Minneapolis, Catholic Eugene McCarthy beat Republican Senator Edward Thye, a Lutheran (with a Catholic wife), by 57,000 votes...
...round of the seasons, the beauty of women. Whatever lucky Jim wants in females he gets, whether it is Neighbor Betty Lee, whose "cool firm thighs were like two great silver carp," or Cousin Nory, whose thighs, "with their milk-white, melon-firm flesh, struck his mind with ruinous astonishment." or Schoolteacher Irene, whose thighs are "like moist and mobile alabaster...