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Until World War II, says Chalmers, U.S. thinking in general was hopelessly adrift. It had degenerated into a superficial sentimentalism, dominated "by wishes which were taken for facts" and by "the widespread conviction . . . that evil does not really exist in individuals, but arises only because of bad arrangements among them." In their blind pursuit of objectivity, scholars had become as indifferent to values as scientists, and semanticists had concluded that "ideas behind words are so varying and inconstant that all we really have left at any time is names." All in all, it was the era of the abolished absolute...
...seeking to apply the broad and all-inclusive definition of 'sacrilegious' given by the New York courts, the censor is set adrift upon a boundless sea amid a myriad of conflicting currents of religious views, with no charts but those provided by the most vocal and powerful orthodoxies. New York cannot vest such unlimited restraining control over motion pictures in a censor...
Last week, having cast Director Laszlo Halasz adrift, the New York City Opera announced a spring season in the best Halasz tradition. In addition to eleven operas from current repertory, it promised productions of i) Alban Berg's tragic opera, Wozzeck, which no U.S. audience has seen in 21 years, 2) a stage version of Gian-Carlo Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors, and 3) a new adaptation, by Marc Blitzstein, of Kurt Weill's The Three-Penny Opera. Possible hitch: Halasz, who is still fighting his year-end dismissal (TIME, Dec. 31), contends that, under...
...other in plant elections. As a result, they have lost some members to a "no union" vote or to the A.F.L. This tussling became a major problem after the C.I.O. in 1949 expelled eleven Communist-dominated unions. Other C.I.O. unions began to scramble for the 800,000 thus cut adrift. United Auto Workers President Walter Reuther and President James B. Carey of the International Union of Electrical Workers have been feuding bitterly over 30,000 former members of the expelled United Electrical Workers Union. Last July, the problem was sharply illustrated when three C.I.O. unions, chemical, electrical and oil, battled...
...Blue Veil's first episode could hold its own as part of an omnibus film like Quartet. Governess Wyman, a widow who has lost her own baby, gently parries Widower Laughton's attentions and loses him willingly to his designing secretary (Vivian Vance), who thereupon cuts her adrift from the household and from the little toddler she has grown to love...