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...Committee ever lose sight of the fact that all present day education lives in the context of ages of education. Still more important is their pervasive understanding of the dynamics of social and economic life and the constant pressure upon education to adapt itself to social economic changes that in the aggregate compose a revolution...
...Valley of Decision (MGM), Marcia Davenport's highly colored best seller about steel and several generations of steelmen and their women and chil dren, would have been no easy job to adapt for the screen, at best. In choosing too often the better part of valor, MGM has permitted too little of the imaginable best to survive. It was probably discreet to reduce Mrs. Davenport's 790-page chronicle to a few years and a few major episodes, but they move with little essential vitality, at a wedding-march pace...
...What makes Stalin great," said the Tsar, "is that he understands how to adapt revolutionary tactics to the whirling spirals of history as it emerges onto new planes. He has discarded the classical type of proletarian revolution. Nevertheless, he is carrying through basic social revolutions in Rumania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Hungary and Poland. Furthermore, we Marxists believe that in the years of peace Britain and the U.S. will fall apart, due, as we Marxists say, to the inability of capitalism to solve its basic contradiction-that is, its inability to provide continuous work for the masses so that they...
...left in that. We're trying to give the countries concerned the best chance they could have in expressing their own will. ... [In these countries] young people have known little else than working against the law. It is bound to take a little time for them to adapt themselves to new conditions...
Many soldiers & sailors returning after months or years overseas were finding it difficult to adapt themselves...