Word: meannesses
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Washington, Federal Security Administrator Oscar L. Ewing aired an idea of his own that might lengthen high-school courses. Ewing's proposal: to give basic military training as part of the curriculum, even though it might mean an extra year in high school.What would be needed after that, Ewing thought, was a Government agency to sift the graduates, determine "how many, and who, will be assigned to military service, to college training, and to industry...
...help of a mysterious character named Golux, brought time to life, Saralinda to wife, and the Duke to a hideous hereafter. Like all good fairy tales-and The Thirteen Clocks is one of the cleverest that any modern writer has been able to tell-Thurber's story may mean only what it says; it may also mean a good deal more that the author has characteristically made no attempt to spell...
...Father Edmund A. Walsh, S J., of Georgetown University, said: "If the Government of the United States has sound reason to believe . . . that. . . attack is being mounted and ready ... it would appear that President Truman would be morally justified to take defensive measures proportionate to the danger. That would mean use of the atomic bomb, as no power would launch a surprise attack on the United States without an adequate supply of atomic bombs . . . Neither reason nor theology nor morals requires men or nations to commit suicide by requiring that we must await the first blow...
What does it all mean? "Don't try to understand," the princess tells one of her victims, and Cocteau echoes her in an "explanation" that is not much more enlightening than his movie. Orpheus is no allegory, he says, but simply an attempt to touch entertainingly in film metaphor on a scrambled collection of such themes as free will, inspiration and the poet's preoccupation with death. What the movie does with these themes is as elusive and disjointed as a half-remembered dream...
...points out that U.M.S. would mean that many men--doctors, trained technicians, for examples--would have to serve twice, once before and once after education. Otherwise, the Army would have no one to fill important advanced posts except the few who would re-enlist voluntarily...