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...various other respects, too. He did as much as any other man to develop "spectacle" movies. He doubtless did more than any other man, with his extravagant bathing scenes, to turn the U.S. bathroom into a national pride. He was the first Hollywoodian to risk a movie on an all-out religious theme (The Ten Commandments, 1923). He was among the first to use "effect lighting." He pioneered with the camera boom and the "blimp" (silencing insulation which permits the sound camera to move freely). He was among the first to use color in a feature (hand-tinting, in Joan...
What did the revival of the Comintern mean? It meant: 1) all-out Communist concentration against U.S. efforts to achieve economic and political peace in Europe, a new era of Communist power politics; 2) Russia's open reassumption of her place (dropped for tactical reasons during World War II) as leader of the world revolution; 3) intensifying of the battle of ideologies (Communism v. democracy), as a prelude to the battle of systems (Communism v. capitalism). The Comintern revival might also mean that Russia was tightening Communist organization for a series of imminent political (and perhaps military) actions...
...before the Big Game, Sproul remarked at one meeting: "You all know Don McNary, who has represented this university officially many times and unofficially at least once." That sort of indulgent presidential view of their conduct makes a hit with Cal students, even more than Sproul's occasional all-out efforts to be one of the boys. (At U.C.L.A., Sproul once sang the Three Little Fishies with the Tri Delts...
...many a cogent article to its pages. He was one of the first to cry havoc over Hitler's Reich, as early as 1937 (in We or They) had convinced many Americans that democracy could not safely live in a world with fascism. Long before Pearl Harbor, he urged all-out aid to the Allies. At the San Francisco Conference, he was a State Department adviser...
While other nations have given in to self-pity and threats to go all-out for Communism, the Japanese are proving that hard work and plain guts are the only methods which will enable a beaten nation to revive itself. Japan may be America's "ace in the hole" in a future war. General MacArthur knows it, but does Congress...