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...There is such a thing as being too unwilling to commit oneself to a course of action. But it is my own conviction that for every man in a position of responsibility today who sins because of his over-judicious approach, there are nine who are neither helping themselves nor the nation by accepting slogans as realities and jumping at conclusions...
...handmade at Harvard. In 1850, speaking of Professor John White Webster, who was convicted and hanged, Harvard's President Jared Sparks said: "Our professors do not often commit murder...
Perverse Innocence. In 1928, Evelyn (pronounced Evil in) Arthur St. John Waugh (rhymes with raw) leaped, like a literary commando, out of nowhere and, establishing a beachhead in that dismal waste land which Poet T. S. Eliot had charted six years before, began to commit merry mayhem on the comic muse...
...came to New York because he had no relatives there. "I wanted to commit sins if I felt like it," he says. He was 20, a hefty, blue-eyed, black-haired youth with $25 in his pocket. He looked up with satisfaction at the "buildings falling all over themselves," but was afraid to get into the subway. Somebody had told him that the trains stopped for only one minute, and he was afraid they would run off and leave him in some hole in the ground...
Dear "Murderer (Rank; Universal-International) is a man who tries to commit the perfect crime, by murdering his wife's lover. Eric Portman is wearily proficient as the murderer; Greta Gynt is blowsily sexy as the wife. The forces of British law & order are, as usual, so immaculately polite about their business that it might tempt some U.S. observers to mayhem, just for the pleasure of meeting them. Occasionally there is a flicker of ingenuity or fright, but most of this picture is sad, stock-company stuff...