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Beware of Pity (J. Arthur Rank) is a cinemadaptation of Stefan Zweig's novel, one of those puddle-depth stories that, draining themselves with a sort of literary eye dropper, pretend to contain oceans of ideas. The tedious technique might seem justified if it conveyed vivid people, or even lively situations. Beware of Pity conveys only one droplet of an idea (there are two kinds of pity: good & bad) diluted in gallons of plot...
...attacked world government as a panacea which could only take people's minds off the "serious" problems confronting the world today. They also pointed out the "danger" that a strong federal world government might well become an instrument of international oppression, as there would be no force which could contain it within "reasonable" bounds...
...Class of '51 is the first since the war to publish a Register, which will contain the name, college and home address, and photograph of every member of the Freshman Class. Publication date for the Register has been set at "sometime before the Christmas holiday...
...strictly American" idea that in advancing international credits the banker should be permitted to call the borrower's political and economic shots. "Because you don't like Communism (Canadians don't like it either), you came up with the idea of using the dollar to 'contain' Russian expansion. . . . Because you do not like socialism, many of your leaders assert that the price of helping Britain, or giving the French a lift, must be an undertaking not to carry on ideological experiments with the dollars of the American people...
...atomic nuclei (except those of hydrogen) contain two or more protons. These have positive charges, and so should repel each other violently. Instead, they are held together by a mysterious attraction. For a generation, physicists have wondered what the attraction...