Word: trapped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Examinations: "The examinations should be less of a bear trap . . . This approach should be positive, not negative. Its purpose should be to probe for knowledge, not to pry for lack...
...goad the judge into making a prejudicial error; it would be handy on appeal. Medina occasionally reddened with wrath as they darted in at him: Isserman with his soft bay; Gladstein with his air of righteous plausibility turning to outraged innocence when the judge caught him laying a legal trap; Harry Sacher, the little man with the bull voice, chivying the Court, then smiling impishly, eyes cast down, while the judge mildly upbraided him; Dennis rushing in occasionally to make a choked, impassioned speech...
...Trap. Some organizations are created by the special demands of doing business and producing things in the machine age, e.g., the corporation. Others are caused by man's desire to protect himself against the machine age, e.g., labor unions. To all these, as once to the feudal castles, man owes loyalties...
...motives-as he might join the Nazi or Communist Party in protest against social injustices; once in, the individual has little voice in the organization, which pursues policies of its own, often diametrically opposed to what the individual wanted in the first place. This process, said Golden, "creates a trap." Unless this dilemma can be resolved, the whole fiber of human society is endangered...
There is probably no actress today better suited to play Joan than Ingrid Bergman. She has said that it has long been her ambition to do so, a factor which must have been partially responsible for her touching portrayal of the Maid in Maxwell Anderson's clap-trap "Joan of Lorraine," in which she appeared on Broadway...