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...three years, UAC requests that the cheerleaders shake up their sytem and organize better have produced no results satisfying to the Council. This fall, apparently, the UAC decided that adjustments within the present system are impossible and thus prescribed the present change...
First Cries. But there is another side to the Tebaldi personality-a kind of native stubbornness that no amount of argument can shake. And occasionally, Tebaldi allows her well-reined temper to show. One opera manager who has worked with them both finds that he would rather face Callas' furies than Tebaldi's smile with its "dimples of iron...
...while he does not hesitate to shake up history himself, he hates to see amateur head shrinkers steal his act. "The psychological western is nonsense," he insists. "I think the western has to be honest. You kill the heavy in the end; you don't haul him off to the psychiatrist. Like I was watching Gunsmoke and there is this woman who is brutalized by a couple of heavies and she gets rescued and all she wants to do is go off to the city and become a prostitute and lead a good life. Can you imagine that? These...
...next six months or so, visiting politicians will shake hands around town and outraged public sentiment will force one or two of these politicians to look into what's going on, I mean really going on, in Springhill. Some will suggest greater safety precautions; some will suggest that the town close up, go away and forget its troubles. But Springhill won't close up, go away and forget because things could scarcely get much worse. Canadians all over are proud of the people of Springhill because the face of the Canadian people is concave, which is good for taking punches...
CHAMBERLAIN (angrily): Of course they don't want you to come to me, because they don't want pressure from the top. But that's my job-to put pressure on them when you don't get a fair shake. Just give me the details and I'll look into...