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...part of its campaign, "to rid the schools and colleges of socialistic, un-American teachings and teachers," the National Council for American Education yesterday released a report to newspapers titled, "Red-ucators at Harvard University...
...does the damage under our American form of government. It passes legislation. It is the majority that should be restrained . . . I now am of the opinion that cloture, in any form, is an evil, a termite gnawing at our very vitals, an instrument of which we would be well rid...
...theater company will be required to get rid of more than half of Paramount's 1,450 houses within three years, specifically those which are now owned jointly with local companies, or which have no competition. No new theaters may be acquired without court permission...
...Plan E for Boston League, known to some as the Beat-Curley-By-All-and-Any-Means-Cofraternity. He urged them to communicate with her for voluntary work in furtherance of the Great Cause. Plan E is not desired on its merits but as a means of getting rid of Curley. A few sarcastic remarks from the high throne of academic superiority disposed of Mr. Curley, and the rest of the hour was devoted to the business of the course, government regulation of industry...
...Metamorphosis, a novelette filled with the Czech author's own terrified and terrifying sense of life. Gregor Samsa, a timid, unsuccessful salesman slaving for his family feels rejected and unwanted. At the end, he hears his sister say of his insect-self, "We must try to get rid of it." The Metamorphosis appears, with 43 other Kafka stories and "short pieces," in The Penal Colony, a collection recently published in the U.S. Like the more famous novels, The Trial and The Castle (TIME, April 28, 1947), all the stories are marked with the surface simplicity of fairy tales...