Word: sorting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...viewing the chichi opening of Tonight at 8:30 (see THEATER), let go a loaded paragraph at first-night audiences: "They lit matches and smoked in the aisles . . . haughtily ignoring the feeble bleats of ushers who kept trying to tell these jerks that one doesn't do that sort of thing . . . in a sardine box like the National [Theater], I tried to find the fireman assigned to the house to suggest [that he] haul some well-dressed slob ... up to night court. But he wasn't around. Maybe he was backstage getting an autograph...
...freedom of the press seems to be involved, are always difficult; the problem of the New Student is doubly difficult because it is unavoidably tinged with issues which the Administration hopefully tried to remove from consideration. From a mass of conflicting testimony and opinion, the Council must find some sort of path, set up some sort of guideposts, to be used in all future cases...
...Education and the CIO's Political Action Committee. The plans are concrete. Hard-boiled veterans of labor's wars such as organization directors Frank Fenton of the AFL and Allan Haywood of the CIO, both conspicuous at the proceedings and solidly attached to ADA for 1948, are not the sort who convention go for the spectacle...
...those still hopeful for peace on earth and good will towards men. But of the two, the Palestine issue is much the more clearly defined, much the more tragic twist of events. The current Czechoslovakia situation, while unquestionably the product of a Communist putsch of the most brazen sort, is not yet fully enough evolved to warrant throwing one hand up in despair and reaching for a rifle with the other, as many are already doing. It is true that President Benes has capitulated to the extent that he has accepted the resignation of twelve of his non-Communist ministers...
...concern. . . . Nowhere is this troubled sense of responsibility more acute . . . than among those who participated in the development of atomic energy for military purposes. . . . The physics which played the decisive part in the development of the atomic bomb came straight out of our laboratories and our journals. . . . In some sort of crude sense which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose...