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...inkling of it had any U.S. forces actually employed this means of warfare . . . When they insisted beyond all reason and logic and just plain common sense that germ warfare was being used in my own units, then I was convinced that everything they said on the subject was an utter lie, that they didn't believe it themselves, but that they were going to carry out orders from higher authority to extract a false statement from me one way or another...
Early in the first act of Gently Does It, Anthony Oliver kills his first wife. In the last scene of the second act, he kills himself. In between these deaths, Janet Green's new play displays an utter lack of originality; in fact, only some expert character portrayals save it from dying with the actors...
Studio One opened its sixth TV season last week by boldly offering an hour of utter despair. A grim, gruesome, humorless show, it was television at its best. The teleplay: George Orwell's bitter satire, Nineteen Eighty-Four, which Mrs. Orwell released to Studio One only after assurances that there would be no tampering with her late husband's blueprint of the ultimate police state...
...harm created. The Notes are an anonymous, collaborative effort, laboriously checked for inaccuracy by many individuals, including (it is my understanding) members of the faculty. That a Note could be used as a vehicle for the promotion of a political philosophy repugnant to other members of the group, is utter nonsense. It must be obvious that the technique employed accounts, for example, for misinterpretation of an explosive Constitutional issue dealing with Negroes when that issue is handled by a Southern member of the Review. To state categorically that the eligible concerned is too suspect to run the risk of realization...
...Romance is for bobbysoxers," she declares, and wards off the amatory Holden by telling him "You're not passionate, you're just hungry." A moment later, she announces kissing to be fun and proceeds to enjoy it. And yet, whether her sophistication is educated naivete, or her childlike candor utter sophistication (one is never quite sure which), she is so fresh, pure and enchanting as to completely disarm Holden, Niven and her audience. Niven, the rake redeemed, tells her that every playboy has an innate respect for innocence. Miss McNamara is acutely conscious of the irony and humor of this...