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...entitled to be accorded by his fellow men a chance to rehabilitate himself. But what will the public think about him? He never has publicly conceded that the jury was right in convicting him of perjury. In the eyes of many people therefore, he has not atoned for his sin. The jury's judgment was based to no small extent on the flat statement by Hiss that he never was a Communist. Since his trial, another witness-Nathaniel Weyl -who broke with the Communists has stated under oath that he personally saw Hiss paying Communist dues several times...
This [demagoguery] is the unforgivable political sin, that would make politics virtually impossible in a free society. If the hope of moderation in our national life is to survive, if a healthy working relationship between the Administration and the new Congress is to be achieved, an end to this disgusting "subversion" game must be made, once and for all. The responsibility for ending it rests squarely with President Eisenhower. For unless he checks it now, the sophisticated demagoguery of Richard Nixon may prove more disastrous for the ultimate sanity of our political life than the hit-and-miss methods...
...wonder, in fact, how much the social order is worth adjusting to. The gospel urges us to nonconformity: "Do not be conformed to this world but be transformed." An evil aspect of peace-of-mind religion is its acceptance, by default, of the social status quo. But its greatest sin lies in using God as a means for human ends. This is blasphemous. A rhapsodic inquiry greets us from the TV screen and the radio: "Have you talked to the Man Upstairs?" In this cult religion verges on entertainment...
...their retreat from reality-room after room in which anyone has died. A wily, bigoted aunt first keeps the girl from running away with her lover. Then she forces the girl to confront her lover's neurotic wife and to grasp that beyond her own Catholic problem of sin, her lover is still bound by strong conjugal ties. When the girl turns imploringly to her great-uncle in his wheelchair, he tries-but in vain-to offer something more than mere platitudes and catchwords of faith; and the suffering girl commits suicide...
...whole thing is decorously romantic -for it is always infinitely seemlier for the Lunts to live in sin together than in the utmost respectability apart. Throughout the evening, they offer slightly grander and more empedestaled versions of their time-honored selves; and by now, indeed, Lynn Fontanne and Alfred Lunt are much less actors than roles. Now, once again, they manifest their uniqueness. She provides a heraldic squeal or purr; he drops to a sudden flawless guttural pianissimo; each not merely throws away a line, but throws it, with a double backward flip, over an exiting left shoulder...