If the circumstances are faced frankly it is not reasonable to expect this to be true.

If his dancers are sometimes made to look as if they might be creatures from Mars, this is consistent with his intention of placing them in the orbit of another world, a world in which they are freed of their pedestrian identities.

If a work is divided into several large segments, a last-minute drawing of random numbers may determine the order of the segments for any particular performance.

If they avoid the use of the pungent, outlawed four-letter word it is because it is taboo ; ;

If Wilhelm Reich is the Moses who has led them out of the Egypt of sexual slavery, Dylan Thomas is the poet who offers them the Dionysian dialectic of justification for their indulgence in liquor, marijuana, sex, and jazz.

If he is the child of nothingness, if he is the predestined victim of an age of atomic wars, then he will consult only his own organic needs and go beyond good and evil.

If it is an honest feeling, then why should she not yield to it??

If he thus achieves a lyrical, dreamlike, drugged intensity, he pays the price for his indulgence by producing work -- Allen Ginsberg's `` Howl '' is a striking example of this tendency -- that is disoriented, Dionysian but without depth and without Apollonian control.

If love reflects the nature of man, as Ortega Y Gasset believes, if the person in love betrays decisively what he is by his behavior in love, then the writers of the beat generation are creating a new literary genre.

If he is good, he may not be legal ; ;

If the man on the sidewalk is surprised at this question, it has served as an exclamation.

If the existent form is to be retained new factors that reinforce it must be introduced into the situation.

If we remove ourselves for a moment from our time and our infatuation with mental disease, isn't there something absurd about a hero in a novel who is defeated by his infantile neurosis??

If many of the characters in contemporary novels appear to be the bloodless relations of characters in a case history it is because the novelist is often forgetful today that those things that we call character manifest themselves in surface behavior, that the ego is still the executive agency of personality, and that all we know of personality must be discerned through the ego.

If our sincerity is granted, and it is granted, the discrepancy can only be explained by the fact that we have come to believe hearsay and legend about ourselves in preference to an understanding gained by earnest self-examination.

If to be innocent is to be helpless, then I had been -- as are we all -- helpless at the start.

If the record buyer's tastes are somewhat eclectic or even the slightest bit esoteric, he will find them satisfied on educational records.

" If Laffoley's work within the Boston Visionary Cell can be said to have one principal preoccupation-a common denominator of his eclectic scholarship and practice-then that preoccupation would be to understand the process by which one goes from becoming to being.

If he had married her, he'd have been asking for trouble.

He said: `` If it's all right with you, Mr. Morgan, I'll sleep out here on the couch.

If we let them go, they won't stay away, they'll find men to ride with them and they'll be back.

He added, `` If this doesn't work out, the three of you barricade yourself in the house and talk terms with them ''.

If you've got any ideas ''.

If she did, he could stand it better in the light.

If you ever try anything without my orders I'll kill you ''.

`` If you hadn't I'd have killed you ''.

If she sensed any unusual preoccupation on the part of her mother, she did not comment upon it.

If she, Pamela, were being held responsible for his crimes, then hers must be the final act of expiation.

If, as she walked, her steps fumbled from time to time, she chose to ignore that omen.

If the slope grew steeper and the groves more dim, she tried not to heed.

If, when this was all over, she found the words to tell him about it, she wondered if he would ever understand.

If you take the one, you'd better take both ''.

If the bluff failed and they ran into trouble, Brannon had told the others, they would withdraw -- and he would come after his son another time.

If you don't leave this country within 3 days, your life will be taken the same as Powell's was.

If someone were to drop a match in here, this place would go up like a haystack ''.

If we was both armed, you wouldn't talk so tough ''.

`` If you spot Carmer give a yell before you move in ''.

If he wondered whether the attackers would allow him to pull away unmolested, he had his answer a moment later.

If the other pilots were worried, they did not show it.

If it were the enemy, tactically his position was correct.

If they're Japs.

If any of us miss, they can pick up the pieces.

If the turn was too tight, a barrel roll would bring them out.