Word: problems
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...called "deepest convictions" of America are the insanity, the nightmare that is drawing us down into the quicksand of hopelessness, desperation, and war. A clear voice speaking with the strong tone of leadership will wake the people from their delirium. Only a daring and challenging new approach to the problem can clear...
...Hindemith, or a session with Prokolieff's latest cello sonats. The kind of music one dismisses as superficial in the winter becomes a treat to drowsy summer appetites, while the type of concert-going invited by cold weather becomes absolutely intolerable as the thermometer this eighty-ish. The problem of giving light music comfortably and informally is solved around Boston in a variety of ways...
...everybody knows it will all end with Ray Milland (a psychologist) leading Loretta Young (a bachelor girl) to the altar, the problem is to provide enough comedy antics to keep the customers awake until the wedding. Cinemactor Milland and the dummy head ("Chester") which he uses for his researches provide some of them. Gail Patrick (the girl Milland jilts) and Edmund Gwenn (the butler in The Earl of Chicago) provide some more. So does the technical chatter of some eminent psychologists. Observers are likely to be delighted when the romp is over...
...declared last month that U. S. foreign policy-in conception at least-is neither hare-brained nor haphazard but determined and clean-cut (TIME, April 29). But difficulties in its application and debate on its course still remain. Last week and this, two books by distinguished students of the problem were rushed into print. Each was primarily concerned with the protection...
...Adventures of a Biologist. Famed problem child of British scientists, prolific science writer, expert on poison gas, big, bristly-tempered, 47-year-old Biologist John Burdon Sanderson Haldane believes that life without adventure is "like beef without mustard." But his idea of adventure is not safaris; it is exploring the ultramicroscopic world, the stratosphere, the nature rather than the surface of the earth. Besides essays on the biologist in relation to everything from town-planning to death, Biologist Haldane speculates on the effect of weather on history, on the possibility of a new ice age, on the chances...