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...Bleak is the Prospect?" is the title of tonight's Kirkland House Forum at which two historians and a philosopher will discuss a book on modern world political and philosophical developments...
Stromboli (RKO Radio). Any film by Director Roberto Rossellini and Actress Ingrid Bergman would seem anti-climactic after their own stormy, thoroughly publicized private lives. As an anticlimax in moviemaking, this one can stand on its own feet. A bleak, draggy little picture, it fulfills neither RKO's prurient advertising claims, nor Rossellini's obviously artistic intentions...
Since The Struggle for the World, the West has reluctantly climbed from the misty valley of ineffectual good will to the bleak but clearer plateau of the cold war. But on the new terrain loom the same old dangers of complacency ("We are winning the cold war"), inertia ("Wait for the dust to settle") and false security ("They'll never match our atomic stockpile"). With a combination of cold logic and hot passion that burns like dry ice, Burnham tries hard to arouse the free world to full realism and resolution. Burnham's argument...
...powerful union leader, Imberman found, frequently expects that he will get the same social recognition generally accorded successful businessmen. "It is a bleak morning indeed," says Imberman, "when the labor leader has the first dim realization that he has ... no prestige in the eyes of his community...
...period of criticism against the loyalty oath I have heard no student who has singed it complain against intimidation. If there has been any silent disapproval, those who are not in favor have the opportunity to resign and follow whatever policies they wish--we have no concentration camps or bleak salt mines to which to send those who disagree with the polices of the government. Young Progressive take note. Douglas G. Shaw...