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...fairer, expression from the people. . . . There is a great deal of argument that the abolishment of the poll tax would put the Negro to voting . . . such is not the case. The Negroes as a class don't care to vote anyway unless they are encouraged by some communistic element...
Nevertheless, while this confusion leaves you with a garbled ideas of what you have seen, it is the very element which gives the picture whatever dramatic value it possesses. Steady continuity of over-tenseness cannot help but often attain startling emotional peaks...
Hollywood is her element. The vibrations are right. The rarefied atmosphere exhilarates instead of suffocating her. She is possessed not only of Dionysiac energy but also of an all but demoniac appetite for expending it. All of each day, from 9 to 7, she pours this boiling vitality into office work, as lavishly over minor details as major crises. All of each evening, until a normal 3 a.m., she keeps right on working-at parties. The only thing that can keep her away from a party given by Elsa Maxwell, Lady Mendl or Cobina Wright Sr. or Barbara Hutton Grant...
Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt's skillful breakthrough had had the first great element of success: surprise. He had struck the thinnest sector of the American line. He had cleverly begun with light attacks, concealing his intentions, playing upon the Americans' underestimation of his strength...
...promise of victory was bright. But the path to victory was highly uncertain. And the greatest single element of that uncertainty was the success or failure of the Anglo-U.S. invasion of western Europe, which Soviet Russia had been demanding since 1942, and which Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt now proclaimed as necessary and imminent...