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...Republican adviser to the State Department fixed his vanilla soda with his habitually solemn stare. A year ago, in a spell of concentrated writing, he had delivered himself of this exhortation: "It is time to think in terms of taking the offensive in the world struggle for freedom, and of rolling back the engulfing tide of despotism . . . In 1942 . . . we were not thinking about how to save our necks, but how to save freedom. We need more of that spirit today . . . In the vast areas of Asia and the Pacific, we have no adequate policy, largely because China, always until...
Last week, back in his State Department office, Dulles carried on his crusade. He fixed an interviewer with his solemn stare. "Some days," he said, "it looks as though I'm just living over again the spring of 1919. The same hatreds and jealousies are all operating. I don't know whether this peace will work or not. I do know the other type is certain to fail. If you have a 100% chance of failure, I think it is wise to take a 50% chance of success." Against the 50% chance of failure, Lawyer Dulles stacked...
...loth to become engaged in a struggle with the President," Paul Douglas said uneasily. "But in this matter, God helping me, I can do no other." In this solemn fashion, Illinois' Fair Dealing Senator served notice last week that he would take his fight with Harry Truman to the Senate floor. A half gale was building up into a hurricane...
...inspired them. Only the most unyielding Alice cultists would begrudge Disney an adapter's liberties, even when he feels forced to omit some favorite passages and characters, e.g., the White Knight, Humpty Dumpty. But Disney's liberties betray the tone and spirit of the original. The mock-solemn humor of Carroll's perversely logical nonsense is all but lost in a jazzed-up jangle of gags, violence, slapstick and sticky jukebox ballads. Only rarely, e.g., the scene where Alice (spoken by Kathy Beaumont) meets the hookah-smoking caterpillar (Richard Haydn), does the Disney idiom enrich...
...tall young man, just a few weeks under 21, entered the chamber alone, walking stiffly and slowly. His large eyes were solemn behind horn-rimmed glasses. His mouth was set hard. His slim, square shoulders seemed a bit too slight for the heavy bullion of the lieutenant general's epaulets they bore. At the first step of the red-carpeted dais before the throne, he stopped, turned, and bowed right & left. A hush hung over the chamber ; the young man's black shoes glistened in the subdued light. He raised his right hand with two long, slim fingers...