Word: attack
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...reached a peak of effectiveness in sabotaging the University's educational system. The College, through shortcomings of its own, had opened the door a crack for them, but with high-pressure business tactics they forced it wide, bursting in all their viciousness upon the Harvard scene. A year of attack could not be expected to climinate them, entrenched as they were. But today they are not the same as they used to be: two of them have closed, and most of the rest are not making as much this year as last. An yet, there they are, still boasting...
Although Clifford Odets's "Night Music" echoes with protest, this time neither capitalist system nor class is the object of attack. Odets has taken in a far larger scope; his newest play concerns the struggle of the individual with a world that is constantly oppressive. Exuberant and brash, it criticizes the contemporary "wasteland" and glorifies a life in which human nature runs free. For Odets the answer lies in youth with its comic overtones and serious ideals. It is a play tempered with bitterness but full of hope...
...great King seeks battle. He prefers to attack. In this, four elements predominate-speed of movement, surprise, concentration of forces at a decisive point, and thrust into flank and rear...
...last war, German submarines were ordered not to attack British warships, to save torpedoes for merchantmen. This time this strategy is reversed, with the object of putting such a strain on British naval construction, large and small, that completion of the George Vs may be retarded...
Died. Dr. William David Haggard, 67, noted Nashville, Tenn. surgeon, president of the American Medical Association (1925) and the American College of Surgeons (1933); of a heart attack; in Palm Beach...