Word: equalities
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...short life, the FCDA had already come under fire from the American Municipal Association, representing 10,500 nervous U.S. cities and towns. The association wanted to put civil defense into the Defense Department and make it co-equal with the Army, Navy and Air Force. General George Marshall wasn't interested: he considers civil defense a civilian problem...
...condition of rearmament, the Germans demanded an end of Western occupation and "equal partnership" in European defense. This meant that the Germans-again-had been put in a position where their legitimate desire for a means to defend themselves could be satisfied only if they played the dangerous game of working on the West's fear of Russia...
...novelette, Burning Bright (produced also as a play that flopped), was a slick but transparently thin plea for universal love. Robert Penn Warren went back to his native Kentucky for a frontier novel of violence and tortured emotions, World Enough and Time. It had power and murkiness in about equal proportions...
...Russians, Berlin Command; Vladimir Petrov's My Retreat from Russia; ex-Leftist James Burnham's The Coming Defeat of Communism, which blueprinted a strategy for Western victory with the brilliant assurance of a man who could say "I was wrong" or "I told you so" with equal blandness. In a time when treason and charges of treason were becoming commonplace, Alistair Cooke's report on the Hiss-Chambers case, A Generation on Trial, was a conscientious and uncommonly well written courtroom report, but its title was a misnomer that suggested indulgence toward traitors...
...playing is of "concert" caliber; on occasion, he has taken baton in hand, conducted the New York City Ballet orchestra in ballet performances. At 46, a U.S. resident for 17 years and a citizen for twelve, he is also, beyond doubt, the finest living choreographer. No one today can equal the lyric grace of his inventions, the cool classicism of his abstract designs. Totting up all of his various qualities, the Nation's exacting B. H. Haggin goes so far as to call him "the greatest living creative artist...