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...phenomenon is, of course, the invincible development of an industrial supereconomy, which created U.S. prosperity along with the tireless machines, the miracles of transport and communication, the manifold service industries that perform many of the functions once performed by servants. The same is happening in Western Europe; only backward countries are still without a "servant problem...
Some directors struggle continuously to open up a play in film terms: Lester blows the whole show into eye-catching fragments, now freezing the action in frame, now running a scene backward or flashing titles across the screen to identify such commonplace objects as A Saw, A Tool Kit, Girls. The tricks are diverting at first, but finally smack of gimmickry. In the midst of so much frenzy, nothing can really happen, and the dialogue is whipped off at a tommy-gun clip in accents that challenge comprehension anywhere west of Land's End. Only Actress Tushingham and Michael...
...white flag bearing the outlines of two children's playing blocks and the words HEAD START flutters from the flagstaffs of city halls and schools in 2,350 U.S. communities this week, symbolizing the new U.S. consensus that preschool school for culturally backward children is the nation's most urgent educational need. Idealistic and hastily organized, Project Head Start will reach 560,000 children and their parents, involve some 500,000 volunteers, cost the Federal Government about $85 million...
...only one road - war." Soon after came Colonel Francisco Caamaño Deñó, who triggered the vicious little civil war, named himself "constitutionalist" President, and says he is for democracy. "We will fight to the end!" roared Caamaño. "There will not be one step backward...
...Snevets. During a brief career as a shillings-a-day extra at Ealing Studios, Tom Hoar-Stevens resisted a friend's advice to "get your teeth fixed, for God's sake," decided to fix his name instead. He tried wearing it backward until Mot Snevets palled, then became Thomas Terry, which made too many people think that he was a by-blow of the famed acting family. Finally he hit on Terry-Thomas and qualified for the export trade...