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...House of Commons last week, Prime Minister Churchill wryly noted "the curious fact that the House preferred to give two days to television policy and only one to foreign affairs." In thus apportioning their debating time, the M.P.s were only echoing their constituents, who, ever since the glowing specter of TV first materialized in British drawing rooms, have debated the wisdom of entrusting its future to the governmental control of the lofty British Broadcasting Corp. Some are motivated by simple boredom at their present TV fare, others by the fear that all sponsored television will promptly descend to the level...
American students will face the specter of the draft for a long time to come, Assistant Secretary of Defense John Hannah declared yesterday...
...opera gets across to its audiences. In any case, Antheil does not have to make his living from his Volpones or from his symphonies (six so far, with a seventh in the works). His fiscal foundation: scoring an occasional Hollywood film. Besides writing crackerjack scores for such movies as Specter of the Rose, The Sniper, The Juggler, In a Lonely Place, Antheil admits that he is quietly fostering a reputation as a musical medicine man who can pull a loosely knit film together by music alone. "If I say so myself," he says, "I've saved a couple...
...specter of the U.S. in the grip of a hysterical witch hunt, of the President cowering before McCarthy's power, bears only a specter's relation to reality. But it is the specter that flashes instantly to the British mind (and less vividly to the French and German) when America is mentioned. Americans can recognize the runaway inflation in the European myth of McCarthyism. But the myth itself was first pumped up in the U.S., and in the U.S. today McCarthyism is more myth than man-but not the less dangerous for that. The reputation of power, even...
...Communist leaders in East Germany grew sick with apprehension. Premier Otto Grotewohl publicly admitted that "temporary difficulties" had disorganized the supply of butter, margarine, sugar and meat. Then he made a public promise that sent the specter of Rudolf Slansky howling down the corridors of East German government departments: "[We] will ruthlessly remove all mistakes and shortcomings . . . Those who are guilty will face the consequences...