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...professor whose book, which he described as "an innovation in scholarship," was rejected, complained that the Press chooses conservative readers who disdain "anything that doesn't plod along the same old rut." But the Press's system of obtaining several readings of disputed works and the generally forward-looking attitude of the Board of Syndics makes such complaints rare...
...Georgy Girl, for example, she seemed at first to be playing the heroine for heehaws, for one of those hopelessly single shoes that plod through life interminably in search of a mate. Yet as the reels went by, the heroine changed slowly from a standard figure of fun to a unique and even sinister individual: a wounded and frightened young woman who wanted love but settled for power?with a husband she could dominate and a baby she could smother-mother. As Georgy, Lynn cunningly combined emotional empathy and ironical detachment. Says Sidney Lumet, who directed The Dead'y Affair...
Around 10,000 fans huddled under umbrellas and trenchcoats in the soggy gloom at the Stadium Saturday and watched a sluggish Harvard football team plod to a 24-7 victory over Brown...
...have reached one conclusion after reading your latest civil rights blurb. All civil rights marchers plod bravely, with heads held high as befits God's noblest creatures, while surrounded by ignorant, sullen, savage, glowering Mississippians who show resentment and hatred by snarling, cursing, flailing and kicking them. The marchers are protected only by porcine cops who with measured malevolence gas, club and kick them. I wish you paid as much homage to truth as to adjectives...
Almost every Saigon newsman agrees that there has been an overemphasis on day-to-day activities, that more time should be spent on background stories. But where will they find the time? Confused by the politics in the cities, worn out by the fighting at the front, "we plod along," says Freelancer Merick, "and delude the American reader by not reporting enough on such things as the rural pacification and rebuilding programs in the villages. I don't think the American people are misinformed, but I think they are ill-informed." And it is the responsibility of the Saigon...