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...tone of the first few scenes leaves one unprepared for the satire to follow. On retrospection, Madame Burgomaster's harangue, "Femmes! Femmes! Our men have failed us!" is seen as a keen stroke of burlesque, but at the time it looks like drama overdone. This is but a minor fault in the long run, however, for the picture as a whole is overwhelmingly funny...
...players, but he was pleasantly surprised. The parts of the small-town liberal editor, Doremus Jessup, of sharp-tongued Lorinda Pike, uncouth, imbecilic Shad LeDue, capitalistic Francis Tasbough, suave, silken Commandant Swan and sanctimonious Parson Prang are filled competently, even played momentarily with flashes of insight. It is no fault of theirs that the audience occasionally laughs in the wrong places; rather it is the fault of the medium, for the use of exaggeration and caricature is at all times, terrifying rather than ridiculous in the novel...
...promising machine lacks the right cogs in that many of the advisors are unfit for the job, and poor organization serves as a defective driving wheel. Freshmen themselves are partly blameable for the first fault, incompetent men. They demand from their advisors the voluminous ever-changing rules governing courses, and are bitter if the instructor makes the smallest mistake in the facts. Dean Leighton has found that the older professors--the best advisors who take the most effective interest in the students--will resign if held accountable for laws better picked up at University C. If Freshmen were less insistent...
...appearance of blazers up to date was explained by the manager as being the fault of the manufacturers who have been tardy with the filling of the orders...
...American before I am a Democrat, before I am a Republican or before I'm anything, and I have never in my long public career ducked, dodged and pussyfooted, I have never found fault with anything unless I was prepared to suggest a remedy. . . . I firmly believe that the remedy for all the ills that we are suffering from today is the election of Alfred M. Landon...