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...Federal Government's sharpest attacks yet on the K.K.K. By choosing a clear-cut case of interstate abduction, the FBI can prosecute under the federal Lindbergh law, which provides a maximum penalty of death. Around Tabor City, at least, some of the robed riders were going to learn that the U.S. is not the fascist state they would like to make...
...managers concede that most of the Republican leaders are for Taft. The people, they say, are for Ike. But the Republican segment of the people shows no overwhelming enthusiasm for Ike, even though many of them realize that Ike is the sharpest Republican candidate with Democrats and Independents...
Anna Christie (by Eugene O'Neill) seems to stumble after 30 years. It opens well, with one of O'Neill's sharpest first acts, but it is not one of his good plays. Nor, even though it is due to move from the City Center to Broadway, is the present production any help: it stresses both the play's age and the playwright's streaks of adolescence...
...added up to one of the gloomiest holiday seasons Harry Truman had ever faced. Behind him the rising tide of scandal pressed closer; ahead loomed the steel deadlock, which might bring the sharpest economic crisis of the year. The President ducked his weekly press conference, labored grimly through the week over his messages on the State of the Union and the budget. This week he boarded his plane for a short respite in Independence, a sorely troubled King Augeas, with not a Hercules in sight...
...favorably -compared to the earlier ones. What is really important is doing two such plays together. Shaw's emerges as so good that what should be stressed is how vividly it differs from Shakespeare's rather than how it necessarily falls short. It sets some of the sharpest prose in the modern theater against some of the greatest poetry of all time; Caesar underscores the impotence of wisdom where Antony dramatizes the tragedy of folly...