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...lack of a cast, Dictator Trujillo had feared the curtain might never rise on next May's comedy, "Free Presidential Elections." Although he had ordered the formation of opposition parties, Dominicans did their best to sidestep. But last week Director Trujillo had fresh hopes. Help had come from an unexpected group of actors: the Communists...
...that stopped right there. Ehrenburg's sidestep, as quoted in TIME: "Sometimes we have all found ourselves in a position where you couldn't tell what would be done...
Jamie-Boy's courtship is coarse but dashing. Time and again (on the rack, swimming, and, by a neat sidestep of the Hays office, in bed with her), Mr. Power gives Miss O'Hara and cinemaddicts an eyeful of his expensive torso. Later he kidnaps her aboard his ship, The Revenge, wolfs roast fowl at her in the Henry VIII manner. She succumbs. She stands by in a petticoat while, in a frenzy of rapiers, broadsides and bloated sails, Jamie-Boy and Governor Morgan liquidate Leech and crew. Occasionally Mr. Power has flashes of Douglas Fairbanks. Most...
Such objections merely sidestep an issue which has become even more pressing since our entrance into the war. The "Princetonian" notes that "Japanese propagandists are capitalizing on American racial discrimination to nourish disunion at home and among our one thousand million colored allies. . . . It would be easier to deal with their charges if the kernel of truth contained in them were smaller." It is not only anomalous, but dangerous, to criticize British subjugation of the Indians, to scoff at Hitler's doctrine of blood and soil, while we continue blindly on our way, dealing with our own "burden" like imperialists...
...slothful "people" responsible for Pearl Harbor, General Johnson? That sounds suspiciously like a cheap bit of red herring pulling to sidestep blame for your uniformed colleagues. "Worldlywise experts" indeed...