Word: authorizations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chief trouble with European intellectuals, says Visson, is that they are bothered by "... a society which believed that to raise the living standard of the masses was more important than to bring to an even higher perfection the literary, philosophic or artistic achievements of the intellectual elite." Author Visson devotes much of his book to a rogue's gallery of brilliant and not-so-brilliant Europeans who have lately explored...
Light Up the Sky is more harsh than funny. It has very little wit-its long suit is billingsgate; and its most valuable asset is the malice displayed by everybody (and not least by the author*). At the end Mr. Hart has all his characters behaving beautifully again, and even implies that show folk are all just high strung screwballs anyway. It is a little as if, having blurted all the unpleasant truths he could think of, Mr. Hart blandly winds up with: "It was all just a joke; I didn't really mean a word...
...Navy, says Author Bradley, only admitted defeat when they found that they could not begin to "cool" a ship's exterior by a complete removal, by sandblasting, of every inch of paint, plus the planing off of a half-centimeter of all deck plank. And, to clinch matters, the Radiological Monitors found that even when radioactivity was not registering on ordinary instruments there might still be "free plutonium" present, the "most insidious poison known...
Samuel Chamberlain, author of "Fair Harvard," Richard W. Cartwright of the Boston Club, and Gyorgy Kepes, professor of visual design at MIT, will head the judges panel. The other two judges are Mrs. Lee Ellis and James Brook noted Boston amateurs...
Professor Simpson, an authority on school financing and administration, has been at the Graduate School of Education since 1940, when he came to Harvard as a visiting lecturer. He is the author of numerous books and articles on financing education...