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...ability to keep alive the spirit of adventure and to inject into public opinion new, fanciful and unorthodox ideas that the vigor of national life depends. Nothing could be more ghastly than a uniform cowlike public opinion which is left willing to browse on artificially fertilized fields and chew the cud of common pasture...
...about individual ideological dilemmas. Those represented here are complex and not very clearly dramatized, and are apt to leave audiences dangling. For this fault, neither Writer Dudley Nichols (scripter of The Informer) nor Director Jean Renoir (Grand Illusion) is entirely to blame: they bit off more than they could chew...
Said the pros: the canal could be built in only ten months, would cost no more than $44,000,000, would take almost no scarce materials. Said the cons: the canal would take some three years to finish, would cost much more than its proponents figured, would chew up from two to three times as much critical material and twelve times the operating manpower that northern pipelines would take. The Citizens Emergency Committee for Eastern Transportation Relief came out for the ditch. The Citizens Emergency Committee on Non-Defense Expenditures came out against it. Plain citizens were confused, as usual...
...Congressmen and other dissenters like Herbert Hoover, Senator Green's report gave many other figures to chew on. Some (like Axis and Allied division totals) were stated without documentation. Similarly he left no room for Congress to discuss the specific wisdom of the plan of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The Chiefs had made their plans with full knowledge of the world situation and after a full study (said Senator Green) of the United Nations' shipping potential, the U.S.'s capacity for worrying by on a slimmer civilian economy...
Today I received my February issue of the Reader's Digest! You just can't imagine how much real pleasure it has given me. When I come home, tired and hungry and irritable from standing over a hot record all day, I just sit right down and start to chew on some of those precious little pearls of wisdom that drop from its pages. And do they stick in my throat? Do they choke me? Why, I should like to state right here and now that they most certainly...