Word: strawman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...following his deeply-felt mission in life, had all he could do to stumble through his lines. James Ruberti and Ralph Hoffmann, as the wholesaler Guldstad and law-clerk Stiver, made poor starts but improved greatly by their big scenes in the third act. Donald McAllister, who played Paster Strawman, has a serious diction problem. He must get rid of his awful accent, and can start by watching his vowels and sibilants...
Both the Ridgway and Williams dissents were inevitable expressions of the views of their respective services. In a sense, however, both were assaulting a strawman. When the Eisenhower Administration departed from the witless "balanced-forces" policy (which meant that Army, Navy and Air Force should get about equal appropriations), it did not substitute a policy of putting all the defense eggs in one basket...
...equating of eggs with human lives is one of Gaylord's follies which provides Viereck with a second chance to push over a tottering strawman. The "bloody-minded professors" who introduced communism into this country prove the dangers of moral relativism...