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...terms Decision hits hard. And though melodramatic in plot, it is sober in tone. For all its earnestness, Decision makes lively theater. For all its unevenness, it is the season's most thought-provoking play...
...seemed to mark the second year of an epoch that sober, responsible publishers and all the carriers and custodians of U.S. culture had hoped for all their lives: a time when book-reading and book-buying reached outside the narrow quarters of the intellectuals and became the business of the whole vast literate population...
Optimists Down. Such reports from Germany are often 30 to 60 days behind current facts. But sober MEW men believed last week that Germany's economy was still in a process of deterioration, not collapse. If they were right, Nazi Germany can still take a lot of beating from the air and on the fronts...
Tougher Hide. But with further success, the joy in success abated. Today, at 39, Hart is no caviar-for-breakfast fellow, but a pretty sober citizen. His chief indulgence is his farm, now more arboreal than ever. Tall, dark and glittering, with Mephistophelean eyebrows and Biblical eyes, for six years he has been going to a psychoanalyst, quips: "I ought to get my F (for Freud) any day now." The visits have helped dispel the dark self-doubts from which the bright gadgets offered escape. They have given him, among other things, the courage to write alone. But he still...
...sober Argentines, it seemed that one of two things was about to happen: either the Government of President Pedro Ramirez would break with the Axis soon, or it would be overthrown. This time, unlike the coup which ousted the Castillo Government last June, revolution might be bloody...