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Damning the Deficits. There was unemployment, still close to 5,000,000. "There may be prosperity again on Wall Street,'' the Executive Council declared, "but for the millions who are unemployed, the recession remains a continuing stark reality." The council's damn-the-deficits prescription: wage boosts, lower taxes, more government spending...
Despite the subcommittee's stark warning, the U.S. Congress plainly intended to keep its head in the sand on civil defense: just two days after the House subcommittee issued its report, the Senate Appropriations Committee flatly turned down Civil Defense Boss Leo Hoegh's modest request for $13,150,000 to get a prototype shelter program started...
...anybody to get to the top; in High Noon (1952), a lawman alone against four avenging gunslingers. The Defiant Ones, in terms of its plot, is equally spare: two men escape from a Southern chain gang and are hunted down by a sheriff and his posse. But from a stark, grimly witty script by Movie Newcomers Nathan E. Douglas and Harold Jacob Smith, Director Kramer makes a story of human understanding slowly carved out of two men's common violence, loneliness and desperation...
There wasn't any door for the damned to hammer on, and the Second Empire mantlepiece "bronze atrocity" was still in the papier mache stage, and two stark spotlights caught the players in a cross-fire. But these things would be rectified by the final rehearsal. The drama itself is an achievement...
Illinois Institute of Technology's Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, 72, architect of stark, skeletal glass and steel skyscrapers. Widely reckoned to be one of this century's three most influential architects (with Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier), German-born Mies was trained as a stonemason. He headed Germany's revolutionary Bauhaus group of artists and architects from 1930 until Nazi pressure forced him to close it in 1933, migrated to the U.S. in 1938. Popular renown came, along with occasional harsh words from Wright and other critics, with Mies's design of Illinois Tech...