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Speaking before the American Association for the Advancement of Science on December 28, Mather clatured that the two McCarran-sponsored laws had dropped "a red tape curtain" around the United States. This was an obvious stab at McCarran's controversial immigration act which compels everyone entering or leaving the United States to swear that he is not a communist, anarchist, fascist, criminal, prostitute...
...decision of the faculty to cut out 15 hours room permission constitutes a stab in the back to the student body. The student Council is guilty in that it has failed in its role as spokeman for the student by consenting to a decision in which undergraduate opinion was not even polled...
Slow Burn. In Evansville, Ind., after being treated at the hospital for a stab wound which he said his wife gave him, William Barrett went home, returned a few hours later with another stab wound, explained that his wife was "still angry...
...After the Nixon broadcast and before Eisenhower came on to speak, we watched one of the most curious performances in recent campaign history. George Bender, the chairman . . . called for those who would support [Nixon] and there was an animal roar from the hysterical crowd ... It was like a 'stab-in-the-back' rally at the Berlin Sportpalast or the fine justice of the People's Court in one of those East European countries." Thus Max Lerner likened 15,000 Ohio Republicans to Nazis...
Breakneck Speed. As composer, Bernstein made an imaginative stab at welding popular music into artistic form, succeeded in producing some moments of brilliance. The jazzy tone was appealing, but the effect was so disjointed that the opera seemed like a study for another Broadway success like Lennie's own On the Town (TIME, Jan. 8, 1945). New York Times Critic Howard Taubman suspected that Trouble In Tahiti, was written at "breakneck speed," came away with the impression that it "could and should have been much better." A larger audience will have a chance to judge for itself: NBC will...