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...Theorist. In The Bronx, Sing Gong was arrested for trying to rob a Chinese laundry by waving a .38-caliber cartridge, demanding money, threatening that otherwise he would find a gun somewhere, put the bullet in it, come back...
Professor Colman, spade-bearded, bachelor dean of a law school, clings to a somewhat cloistered view of the law. A renowned theorist, he is unaware of the common or police-court distortions of legal principles. Gary Grant, Jean Arthur and others resolve-not entirely unselfishly-to open his eyes. Grant is a fugitive from an arson charge. He has been framed by his boss, who burned down his factory to collect the insurance. Miss Arthur, a rather befuddled schoolmarm, just wants to see justice done...
...More intent on excluding none than on wholely finding one," it was inevitable that he should remain innocent to the end of his days of psychology, character, the true nature of individualism, personality, tragedy, evil-all of which considerably complicate the problems of the poet and of the democratic theorist...
...dwell in the uneasy revulsions of a sort of spiritual incest. They represent, respectively, the frigid, inhumane predicament of mind-without-spirit and the equally suicidal predicament of spirit-without-mind. Carl's mental drive stretches him flat on the altar he has built before a hypnotic social theorist. Ellie is impelled to sacrifice herself to the "resurrection" of an aging, rich sophisticate. The earlier phases of these relationships are ground out with a skillful, meat-grinder tenacity worthy of tougher meat...
...have taken courses in Government or Economics under the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, but the new department centralized under the control of Professor Gaus, will endeavour to tie all these subjects into the graduate courses of regional design. The student of planning can no longer be a mere theorist, he must now be trained in government and administration...