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...Howard Hallam, in the first act of CAPTAIN BRASSBOUND'S CONVERSION. And Howard answers (unpardonably): "Perhaps because you never asked me." It's like that all the way through three long acts: hack-work by a great playwright Shaw's intention, no doubt, was to present a series of unjust sentiments in elegant language, but all that he actually achieved was a preposterous plot, a smattering of coy jokes and wheezy epigrams, and a brace of cardboard characters (there's even a comic Cockney...
...Your two columns on apartheid are factual and truthful. As a white practitioner of apartheid, or, as we prefer to call it, separate development, I agree with the implication that it is wrong, oppressive, unjust, immoral - but necessary...
...cannot claim to be innocent by furnishing bail." Final Compromise. The government then reduced its demand for bail to $35 million and offered to write a letter to Ebtehaj affirming his innocence and unjust arrest. Still he refused. Only when the regime's face-saving condition of bail was dropped completely did the prisoner agree to be liberated. In exchange, Ebtehaj posted a $140 million bond guaranteeing his continued presence in Teheran...
...supporters were given little chance to speak. A motion to withhold further action until the delegates had more time to study the report was voted down. In an impassioned speech that brought tears to the eyes of women parishioners sitting in the gallery, Merriam accused the presbytery of taking unjust and ill-considered action against him. "Fathers and brethren," he cried, "you have judged us hastily, and you have judged us wrongly.'' The presbytery was unimpressed; the vote for rescinding the call got a larger majority than last month's ballot to remove Merriam from the pulpit...
From Meters to Car Boosts. Inevitably, the manufactured crime wave engulfed the police department. Both the News-Call Bulletin and the Chronicle blasted departmental indifference ("These citizens want action," shrilled the Chronicle, "not explanations"). The Examiner printed a singularly unjust cartoon of a mugger escaping under the very nose of a motorcycle cop-who was too busy writing a parking ticket to notice. And all three papers printed statistics to prove that since Jan. 1 crime in San Francisco was up 13% over last year...