Word: authors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...easy. Eisenhower, unlike many a U.S. author, had not written his story with an eye on the movies. Therefore, without betraying its honest, factual presentation, his book had to be refitted into 26 connected episodes that would make dramatic use of the most valuable war film available. In the process Feldkamp found that he had a full-time research job on his hands. Eisenhower could state a fact or a situation in a sentence, but Feldkamp, in order to pictorialize it, had to know what was going on all over the battlefield-and elsewhere-at the same time. His reading...
...There's Freedom for the Brave (William Morrow Co., $4) is a powerful statement of the thesis that the West cannot defeat the evils of Communism without conquering the weakness and the evils in its own body & soul. The book has two parts and two aims. In the author's words, the first is to show the world "What's Up," the second, "What's to Do." Author McGuire is considerably more successful in the first than in the second task...
...State Legislature within two weks. Behind its pious title, it contains threats against the tax-exempt status and the charter of any educational institution which "knowingly employs in its faculty one who advocates the overthrow of the United States government by force or violence." Representative Ralph Sullivan of Boston, author of the measure, claims that charters and tax exemptions are given to colleges by the state in return for such services as "improving standards of education" and "taching respect for authority." He contends that when a college employs a teacher who believes in violent overthrow of the government, that college...
Benjamin, a well known educator and the author of several books dealing with education methods, will speak on "The Cultivation of Idiosyncrasy...
...reach this country." It can not stand up to "Open City" or "To Live in Peace," for example, as consistently successful cinema art. Still, there are some very fine moments of melodrama in "Tragic Hunt," that rate it well with the earlier films and make its director and co-author, Giuseppe De Santis, a promising new figure in his field...