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...Apparatus carried out its determination is described in the last, galloping pages of Conspirator-a novel that is too much of a sheer thriller to attain real literary stature, but much too brilliantly written to be classed with ordinary whodunits...
...committees and sub-committees does not invalidate its basic merit. The functions it intends to serve have long been sadly neglected, and if the Key performs its job well, it will have been worth the efforts of organization. It seems debatable, too, whether the Crimson Key Society will ever attain the position of prestige and honor that its proponents have outlined, and which similar societies hold in other colleges. Nevertheless, it is an experiment worth trying...
...City, and the rest of the cast are equally appealing. The handling of Joe, the Negro soldier, is particularly interesting: the natives frankly treat him as something of a freak and are quite unabashed in so stating. Yet beneath their curiosity, lies a genuine respect which permits Joe to attain individuality and equality seldom before accorded a Negro on the screen...
Objectives. The commission came to a familiar conclusion, but had some strong remedies to suggest. "For the great majority of our boys & girls," the commission said, "the kind and amount of education they can hope to attain depends not on their abilities, but on the family or community to which they happen to be born, or worse still, on the color of their skin or the religion of their parents." The U.S. must have an educational system "in which at no level. . . will a qualified individual in any part of the country encounter an insuperable economic barrier to the attainment...
Even ever-optimistic Bill Benton was almost discouraged. Said he: "If the aim of UNESCO is not to attain greater and greater freedom of information, then it has no world objective and hence no justification for its existence...