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...devastated countries which will need help in rebuilding, France, having borne the brunt of German occupation on her twice-contested land, seems to me foremost. The pioneer French functional architect, Edouard Le Corbusier, an adviser to the French Minister of Reconstruction and Town planning, has estimated that 150,000 new communities will be needed in France to replace those destroyed. Speaking, however, of those civilians who must have immediate but temporary shelter, he says: "They don't want a new, clean, modern town. They just want to rebuild the same old hovels on the same old spots where their grandfathers...
...Before the war," Professor Burbank said, "the Economics Department had almost 40 junior members who bore the brunt of the tutorial program. This number dropped to three during to war, and many of the young men we need are still in Washington or France despite the end of the war. The enrollment of the graduate school is new double its peace-time total, and undergraduate courses are flooded, too. We must build our staff before reconsidering tutorial...
Robert Lubchansky, as Alceste, to whom the whole world is "detestable," bears the brunt of the exposition of a role on which Moliere leaves his audience as judge. Lubchansky's interpretation is most notable for its absence, and although he competently portrays Alceste's disillusionment and dark anger, he plays the role straight, leaving his listeners to decide whether he is a justifiably pessimistic cynic or a ridiculous crank...
Unlike the Dutch, the French troops (including the veteran 2nd Armored Division) bore the brunt of the fighting. Last week they captured the focal Annamite resistance center of Tayninh, some 50 miles northwest of Saigon, and got their first overland link with food-rich Cambodia. But the Annamites kept up bitter fighting in the bamboo forests, effectively sniped and sabotaged...
They had made some contribution to the Allied war effort by their guerrilla activities, though the brunt of Chinese resistance was borne by Chiang's troops. They were dedicated to "bourgeois democracy" now, to Communism ultimately. Of Chungking they wanted a "coalition" government, a weird, hybrid sort of ad ministration in which they would share overall control but keep their army and state...