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...show the camera's range: Sweden's Gustav V ("the simple dignity of a democratic king"), Jersey City's Hague ("the arrogant power of a mayor"), Britain's Attlee ("the bewilderment of a politician"), and U.S. Technologist Vannevar Bush ("the serenity of a distinguished scientist...
...thriller made last year by the same producer. There are some shots of a familiar-looking space ship and rumors of an impending collision between the earth and Bellus, but the picture spends most of its time on a cold love triangle between a hot flyer, a hot woman scientist, and a drab doctor. Unfortunately the picture never shows how the world would act as Doomsday approached...
...bent over backwards to play up the timely problem of the individual's rights against the majority in a time of crisis, but in so doing he has been forced to underscore another problem: the inviolability of objective truth. The main thesis of the play is that a scientist may and must stand firm against the animalism and stupidity of mob opinion; when the masses proclaim him an enemy of the people for his adherence to the facts, he realizes that the inherent fallacy of democracy lies in the selfishness of the people...
...materialistic mayor of a town which sees its chief means of financial support being knocked from under it, is at once crafty and dignified. Both female leads, Joanna Brown and Connaught O'Connell, are self-composed and extremely capable as the sympathetic wife and daughter of the scientist. The doctor himself, as played by Donald Stewart, is truly an outstanding performance. He transfers himself so completely into the part, he believes so implicitly in his ideals, that it is difficult not to regard the play as a personal tragedy rather than as one of false ideologies...
...scholars together is himself neither scholar nor scientist. Frederick Leon Kunz is a University of Wisconsin graduate who once headed a Buddhist college in Ceylon, later became a free-lance lecturer, and three years ago founded the Foundation for Integrated Education. The purpose of the foundation is to go deeper than any system of "general education." It is not enough, says Kunz, to dump a few facts from one field into another; it is far more important to go after the basic concepts behind the facts. As it is, most specialists don't even know what the score...