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Because of this doom and gloom atmosphere the scientists produce whenever they apply pencil to paper, I would not suggest reading ASF in one concentrated dose. It becomes dull after a while when the veneer of scientific plausibility and shrewd story telling loses its novelty and only the tears remain. But for all that, ASF is produced for more than just the science-fiction devotees, and taken with restraint, is a welcome relief from the heavy tomes of reading period...
...protest Hollywood's attempt to portray itself as merely a reproduction of "Main Street anywhere." This, if nothing else, should incur the mass uprising of every Main Street everywhere to press charges of slander against the most powerful nest of veneer-covered, mental-garbage-disposal-dump ever invented by mankind...
...sure smash hit. Yet it is a hit at the expense of being a good play. Most of the Marquand virtues are discernible, but in Paul Osborn's version they are doled out in the smallest of small change. The whole thing has a smart, professional veneer, but it has no real psychological or satiric impact...
...formation of engrams, Dianetics for neurosis) "Shut up you little bral that's education," pointed out the tape recorder as an example of the punishment-drive. As a result of this overemphasis on Mest, people do not know themselves; instead, they "give a present-time manifestation which has social veneer...
...there is an even more unfortunate aspect of the situation. While Harvard is prostituting its standards under the thin veneer of the scholar-athlete hogwash, it is highly unlikely that it will get a good football team. This year's freshman juggernaut is a case in point. For months indignant howls have been raised about Harvard's going "professional." The best refutation of this charge is the fact that the freshman team, composed largely, I have no doubt, of scholar-athletes, has a record that is, if possible below the Harvard norm. Paul S. Aipers...