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Instead, half a dozen of the more articulate members of this cast of thousands traded truisms in a conversational sham battle that dragged on for dangerously close to three hours. The screen play for "Quo Vadis" is talky enough to have been written by G. Bernard Shaw, except that it sounded a good deal more like Edgar A. Guest...
...strength seems to be drawn from an immense source of nervous energy. This, joined with her sensitivity and fragile beauty, makes it seem impossible that she should last as long as she does under the same strain of guilt which overcomes Macbeth. The sleep-walking scene, when the sham is gone and there is nothing left but the subconscious, is the finest moment of the play...
Labor's façade of unity was a sham, as everyone in Britain knew. As the Scarborough conference broke up, Laborite Rebel Nye Bevan-who hopes to be Britain's next Prime Minister but one-bested all comers in the constituency polls for a new National Executive Committee of the Labor Party. Three of his disciples, including fiery Mrs. Barbara Castle, were elected to serve alongside him on the 25-man committee. Defense Minister Manny Shinwell was beaten. Attlee's moderates, with the powerful bloc votes of the trade unions, still held control of the party...
...appeal to irrelevant interests. You must maintain religion, because it is good for morality and for commerce; you must keep up sports to avoid dissipation and ill health; you must raise armies to avoid war. But if really good only for such purposes, you would have only a sham army, sham sports, and a sham religion...
More disturbing than a number of factual errors is Wagner's misinterpretation of events to suit his purposes. He turns the undergraduate Franklin D. Roosevelt into a democrat whose interests were "all work and no sham...