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I point now with pride to the fact that, long ere the Committee on Un-American Activities, the Minute Women, the Economic Council and other such notable `` watchdog '' organizations were so much as heard of, I was Hollywood's leading bulwark against communism, fighting single-handedly `` creeping socialism '' against such insuperable odds as the Fascio-Communist troops of the NRA, PWA, WPA, CCC and an army of more than twenty-two million mercenaries whom F.D.R. employed secretly, through the transparent ruse of regular `` relief '' checks.
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I saw Little Billy rise and fire almost point blank and an Indian's face became shattered flesh and bone.
My future lay solely with the hall, yet what did I know about the hall at this point??
There had been classroom guffaws which quickly subsided as Professor Griggs said dryly: `` I see your point, Pauson.
I consider it the center of the world and make it a point to be there once a year ''.
But I have been at some pains to review it as the drama of the common man, to point up what happened to him under Eisenhower's leadership.
What I want to point out here is that all of them are ex-liberals, or modified liberals, with perhaps one exception.
While the picture was taken, Mr. Miller's disposition to be generous to Mr. Sandburg increased to the point where he advised, ' I won't even charge you the one dollar rental fee ' ''.
One, a reservation on the point I have just made, is the phenomenon of pseudo-thinking, pseudo-feeling, and pseudo-willing, which Fromm discussed in The Escape From Freedom.
Along these lines, the particular point that sensitivity in literature leads to sensitivity in human relations would require more proof than I have seen.
Had I been granted the floor on a point of personal privilege, the matter she raised would have been clarified.
I suppose I am missing some elementary point but I honestly cannot see how two wrongs can make a right!!
Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members who desire to do so may extend their remarks at this point in the record ; ;
May I add a caution on this particular point??
I wonder if anyone ever bothered to make the point that when it comes to boats and their motors, Americans excel over any country in the world in the long run.
From this point, I paint in as direct a manner as possible, by flowing on the washes with as pure a color mixture as I can manage.
Eventually it became clear to me, partly with the aid of another schizophrenic patient who could point out my condescension to me somewhat more directly, that this man, with his condescending, `` You're welcome '', was very accurately personifying an element of obnoxious condescension which had been present in my own demeanor, over these months, on each of these occasions when I had bid him good-bye with the consoling note, each time, that the healing Christ would be stooping to dispense this succor to the poor sufferer again on the morrow.
If this attitude is seriously questioned in the Soviet Union, it does not necessarily follow that the majority of the society in which I live is too aware of the necessity for clarity on this ethical as well as aesthetic point of view.
I tell you, I know how it is with you, my friend, I sympathize, and I'll make it a special point -- a special favor -- get in touch, and get some stuff just for you.
I and now
God in Heaven, I can't refuse you now.
`` I don't mind washing dishes now and then '', he said pleasantly.
This desire, I went on, growing voluble as my conviction was aroused, had mounted at such a rate recently that I now found its realization necessary not only to my physical but also to my spiritual wellbeing.
`` Hell, that's all right, buddy '', the Indian ( I now guessed ) said.
There had been a good second or two during which my muffler had been blowing out, and now I was certain I'd seen her somewhere before.
I said, `` O.K., so now only Blake knows.
If it were not for an old professor who made me read the classics I would have been stymied on what to do, and now I understand why they are classics ; ;
and now I think we can use the knowledge they passed on to us.
`` And now '', said Tilghman with deadly calm, `` I'll repeat what I said.
I been riding train for a ways now ''.
I followed them in the jeep and now they did not care.
His London contract was rescinded, and now, he explains cheerfully, as a bright smile lightens his intense, mobile face, `` I conduct only one hundred and twenty concerts ''!!
`` I have just come from viewing a man who had made the fortune of his country, but now is working all night in order to support his family '', he reflected.
And so I would only touch upon it now ( much as I have long wanted to write a book about it ).
Both I and my feelings come up out of a chain of events that fan out into the past into sources that are ultimately very unlike the entity which I now am.
The Commission seems to represent the viewpoint of what I would call the unconscious liberal, but not unconscious enough, to invoke the now taboo symbolism of socialism.
If I now risk some comparisons with Sons And Lovers let it be clear that I am not comparing the two works or judging their merits ; ;
Yet this passion for passion, now that I look back on it with passion spent, seems somewhat overblown and operatic, though as a diva Miss Millay perfectly controlled her notes.
I can see us now.
I fled, however, not from what might have been the natural fear of being unable to disguise from you that the things about my bridegroom -- in the sense you meant the word `` things '' -- which you had been galvanizing yourself to tell me as a painful part of your maternal duty were things which I had already insisted upon finding out for myself ( despite, I may now say, the unspeakable awkwardness of making the discovery on principle, yes, on principle, and in cold blood ) because I was resolved, as a modern woman, not to be a mollycoddle waiting for Life but to seize Life by the throat.
I and with
As I dug in behind one of the bales we were using as protection, I grudgingly found myself agreeing with Oso's logic, especially when I imagined what would have happened to Missy if Old Knife's large party of screeching warriors had overrun our company.
Still, I was disgusted with myself for agreeing with Montero's methods.
Every time I closed my eyes, I saw Gray Eyes rushing at me with a knife.
I could see their faces glistening with sweat and bear grease, their mouths open, shouting their spine-chilling cries.
I have it with me, right here.
I don't know what makes you think you can get away with this kind of business, and I don't care about that, either.
It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.
When I went for my interview with the director I saw why.
As he lowered himself on the chair behind his desk I wondered what this dapper, slightly ridiculous man could possibly have to do with the workings of the hall.
What sort of men I would come into contact with, at the hall??
I had always, I said, hankered after working hard with my hands.
Where I go, she goes -- and the kids with us.
I am with you, of course, Tomas ''.
At these words of sympathy and understanding, Harmony said generously, `` I don't mind setting here along with Gran while you go out and join in the games ''.
Besides, 'tain't no more'n right for me to follow with my black oxen, so's I can unhook and pull up fast if either of you get in a pinch ''.
`` Moriarty '', my driver suddenly exclaimed with something so definite, so final in his tone I once more repeated the absurdity, mustering all my latent powers of hypocrisy to sound convinced.
Adios '', I said, exhausting my Spanish vocabulary on my host and exchanging one of a scarcely-tapped store of smiles with my host's daughters.
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