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Fires at the Asheville encampment burned feebly in comparison with the torches of C.I.O. No special funds had been appropriated for the A.F. of L.'s push for 1,000,000 new recruits. No new organizers would be hired. The cadre of A.F. of L.'s new legions would be built around platoons now in the field: building-trades locals, truckers, printers, longshoremen, tobacco workers...
...comparison to the years before the war very few Americans are studying in European colleges...
...comparison to the competing Ballet Theatre, the Ballet Russe company is pathetically weak. It is short on stars capable of handling the more difficult roles, and second-rate in its ensemble dancers. But the main shortcoming of the company is imagination, the kind of imagination in choreography and staging that enables the Ballet Theatre to give productions like its "Firebird" (with sets by Chagall!), "On Stage," or "Fair at Sorochinsk," efforts that the Ballet Russe perhaps through unavoidable monetary restrictions--would never even try to equal...
...Comparison is inevitable when a film such as "Laura" is transplanted to the legitimate stage, and, for once, the celluloid version is clearly the superior of the two. The Hollywood production, combining superb acting and photography with fine music, was notable for swift pacing and tense atmosphere--the very characteristics lacking in the "Laura" at the Wilbur. Producer Hunt Stromberg Jr. and author Vera Caspary apparently felt that the theatre presented the opportunity denied by the screen to develop real people complete with libidos, but the play starring Miriam Hopkins, Otto Kruger, and Tom Neal, in no way improves upon...
...difficult to reason why M.I.T., with a housing shortage much less severe than Harvard's, has gone straight into the construction business and has erected 100 units of its own, which will supplement any windfall housing donated by the government. It is even more difficult to imagine that a comparison of the financial positions of the respective institutions would effectively explain why one is looking for more units, while the other has the land and bargains, Fabian-like, with the government, state, city, anybody, to come in and do the job for them. There is no questioning fiscal conservatism...