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Were the diners at the Union League deluding themselves? Not according to expert analysis (see below). The signs of a historic reversal were all around. By the most conservative estimate Ed Martin would beat old Senator Joe Guffey, slavish follower of his Democratic masters, by 200,000 votes. The margin might be a lot more than that. Ed would carry with him Pennsylvania's Attorney General James H. Duff, his own hand-picked candidate for governor. Of 33 Congressional seats, Pennsylvania's Republicans stood...
...their technical excellence, lavishness, and slavish emphasis on accuracy, Hollywood's motion pictures can seldom be hailed as either sensitive or powerful. "The Lost Weekend," however, is both of these...
...with interchangeable parts. When he assembled the scrambled parts of ten muskets before U.S. War Department brass hats, they were as startled as if a magician had conjured them up. Besides contributing to mass production, Whitney's revolutionary discovery also helped the U.S. kill the beginnings of the slavish apprentice system...
...slavish devotion of the movies to authentic local color and the realism of modern acting have naturally whetted general impatience with the fact that the Met's scenery continues to be predominantly mid-Victorian and its acting in the good old Italian tradition, pure ham with a whiff of garlic. These are real objections that nobody would try to deny, but they have nowhere near the importance for opera that they would for spoken drama. Opera's source, and its principal excuse for existence, is the wonderful physical satisfaction of hearing a well-trained human voice, an appeal not basically...
...decide that question. It did decide, by the closeness of the vote, that constructive criticism and calm restraint, rather than a hasty and well-greased O.K. to the presidential preferences, is the kind of effectiveness which must be forthcoming from the 77th Congress. Without this attitude, and with a slavish legislative subservience to Unity or the Mandate from the People, America will soon find itself at self...