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These substantive shortcomings are compounded by further ailments in method and data. Draper has a subtle and insidious way of making speeches and proclamations from Cuba illustrate his thesis only, when they could do the same for other theses as well. He occasionally uses his opponents' weakest arguments to prove by invidious comparison his most difficult points. He uses lightly loaded words to hedge his way through some difficult arguments. And some of his data simply do not agree with that in other works on the revolution...
...last week in their second in ten months. The two principal contenders were familiar faces, ranged against each other for the third time. There was the flamboyant old Tory campaigner, Prime Minister John George Diefenbaker, 67, a prairie trial lawyer at his best on the hustings and at his weakest in running the Government. Against him once again stood Nobel Prizewinner Lester Bowles Pearson, 65, an able man whose quick, shy grin could not conceal his distaste for campaigning...
...fourth game, the local "Teachers," the weakest team on the island, recruited eight stars from the other clubs, and were able to press Harvard. After a relatively close but somewhat less inspired match, the Crimson emerged with a 16-9 win and their undefeated record...
...weakest element in Mr. Cohen's analysis is his brief dismissal of Mr. Diefenbaker's chances in Quebec. Mr. Pearson may have promised to set up a Royal Commission to study biculturism but the Prime Minister has gained admiration and trust in Quebec by his dramatic rumblings over American "intrusion" in Canadian affairs. Mr. Diefenbaker may "have the face of Bugs Bunny and sound like the voice of Moses"--but he fits the hero image better than Mr. Pearson. He has wagged his finger at Washington and he is a powerful "unequivocal-sounding" platform performer. And the crucial fact remains...
...What is weakest is O'Neill's language. He stuffed his people's mouths with pebbles under the delusion that it was prose poetry. English is a patient enemy, but after 35 years, scene after scene is maimed or destroyed by O'Neill's self-indulgent reliance on bumbling, commonplace speech and gassy rhetoric. Strange Interlude's famed asides, or internal monologues, clog the flow of the action without adding density of meaning...