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...replace the vacuum that characterized Ramadier's ten months in power, Schuman proposes stringent budget supervision, a wholesale stabilization of national currency, and an all-out war against Communist-inspired strikes. His purely economic solutions can be effected through prudent government alone, but when M. Schuman intends to crush the present widespread strikes, he must deal with unions that are controlled by a Communist party opposed to any U. S.-dictated recovery. Maurice Thorez has precipitated a 1,500,000 man walkout for higher wages in the hope that either an expanded currency or low production will push inflation...
Mourning Becomes Electra (produced on Broadway in 1931) was never a great play-let alone a great Greek play. But it is a play that hankers after greatness (and Greekness) like a schoolgirl with a crush on a bust of Aeschylus. By attempting to dramatize the Oedipus complex on a framework of Greek drama, O'Neill produced a travesty of Freudian thought and something like a parody of Greek tragedy...
...Unfinished Dance (M-G-M). Little Margaret O'Brien, a "sparrow" (apprentice) in a ballet theater, has a schoolgirl crush on Cyd Charisse, a promising ballerina. Margaret hates Karin Booth, the premiere danseuse, because she thinks Cyd should have the top ballerina's job. If only something awful would happen to Karin...
During the terrific crush of the first post-war years, students found themselves effectively impaled on their War Service Credits. This year, with some of the pressure off the Dean's office and the Registrar, refusing all February applications, undergraduates can expect some relief. Honors candidates and students who graduate with less than eight terms of college will be allowed to waive their service credits and stay on until they can complete four full years of college. Each case will be judged by a man's genuine educational drive and on the applicability of his non-college training...
...prescribes internationalism-a U.N. with Russia counted out: "The veto must be abandoned. ... It is the dictatorship of one nation ruled by one man. That kind of U.N. cannot save democracy. Stalin is not yearning to save democracy. . . . Russia will employ it as a weapon to divide and ultimately crush the democracies. . . . The U.N. is not an international government. It must be remade to become one. It is very likely that the moment the nations begin reshaping the U.N. they will be on the way to an international government without Russia...