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...areas of debate, events had set up an insistent demand for decision, without delay. The area: Korea. Here, defeat and disaster were not future possibilities but present-day facts. Its cities gutted, its land scorched, its people uprooted, Korea had ceased to exist as a nation, had become a monument to the ravages of war. By the most optimistic speculation, U.N. forces would be able to hold only a corner of the shattered peninsula...
...Brooklyn Eagle. But he never lost his interest in U.S. schools, and in his editorial columns he became one of the most dedicated educational critics of his day. In a new book edited by Florence Freedman, Walt Whitman Looks at the Schools (King's Crown Press; $3.50), present-day parents and teachers can find a few lessons in the columns Walt Whitman wrote...
Saved by Curves. Present-day windows, says the CAA, are strong enough to carry present-day pressures, and at the comparatively low altitudes (18,000 to 20,000 ft.) now flown by airliners, a passenger is unlikely to be captured by a rush of air to a broken window. There has been one such accident, but it did not turn out too badly. An airline hostess was sucked to a window, but her hips were wide enough to stick in the frame and save her from being popped like a cork into the empty air.* The pressure difference (only...
While MacLeish discounted the greater impersonality of present-day warfare as a reason for the demise of the great war novel, Harry T. Levin '33, professor of English, cited it as contributing to the lack of heroes in modern literature...
...recent special report on "Advising in Harvard College" attacks with admirable vigor and the roughness the biggest problem of present-day Harvard: depersonalized education...