Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shepley-Blair report, The Hydrogen Bomb, is now the center of a roaring controversy. The book has been denounced by men of weight, including many leading atomic scientists. Certain journalists have said that the book implies a plot on the part of atomic scientists against the U.S. They have said that the book is part of an anti-intellectual wave that is making it impossible for scientists to work for the Government...
...believe everything in the book without finding disloyalty in Robert Oppenheimer or any other man who appears in it (except confessed spies like Klaus Fuchs). In fact, those newspaper and magazine commentators who have mentioned the book without attacking it do not find it a story of a plot or a betrayal. The statement that the book describes or implies a plot comes from the book's bitter critics. But confusion, indecision and bad judgment can do as much damage as plots. A lot of roads to the dead ends of history have been paved with good intentions...
Before the Shepley-Blair book appeared, the Alsops, in a long Harper's article (now about to be published in book form), gave their explanation of the case against Oppenheimer. They said it was a plot, and they showed no reticence about describing the motives of the anti-Oppenheimer plotters. Air Force "zealots" knew -or rather "smelled"-Oppenheimer's opposition to the doctrine of defense centering on strategic air-atomic striking power. These men knew that he was "vulnerable" because of his past Communist associations, so they decreed his demise. (The Alsops for years have been attacking those...
Hobson's Choice is a Warm Glow picture. With everyone happy, married, and well on the way to becoming rich at the end, the plot is beyond the most fanciful requirements of Horatio Alger. Fortunately, Hobson's Choice is, betimes, a funny picture...
...three women wrangle over his future in progressively laundering voices. At the peak of feminine fury a revival parade marches by, bearing a banner: BEEWARE THE WRATH TO COME. These unexpected dividends of chuckles, like the prize in Crackerjack, are the more welcome for being quite detached from the plot and from one's expectations...