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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brought forth the methods of the common law and developed the bill of rights should not shrink from this new command from a sorely troubled humanity. Creating a system of law for the nations of the world should not be beyond its competence. That should not be more difficult than the development of the rights of man to justice under law. In addition, today, we have a new factor to help in the acceptance of such a plan-a compulsion to try to preserve life itself which is a force that will not be denied. Certainly the peoples...
...present full employment, enlisted men and noncoms should have little trouble finding jobs. Civvy street should also not be too hard for junior officers with technical training in engineering, electronics, navigation, etc. So far, colonels, brigadiers and rear admirals-men in their 40s or beyond-are finding themselves most difficult to place. In factories and firms they find themselves regarded, and resented, as Colonel Blimps. Private companies, however, are delighted to pick up ex-field marshals at fancy prices for their boards of directors. Too many honors without enough rank can also be bad. "A knighthood," observed the London Economist...
...week, managed to consume almost 1½ tons in 27 years, until he came to Dr. Melrose's attention. Then, in hospital because of a stroke, he was denied bicarbonate. "This at once produced a violent emotional reaction," reported Dr. Melrose, "and he became restless, aggressive and difficult to handle." The doctors decided to taper him off, gave him successively smaller doses until at last the bicarb was completely withdrawn...
...unexpected truths about contemporary social or political conditions. Contemporary problems treated as versions of Greek myths not only retain the desirable characteristics of classical drama (strong simplicity and universal suggestiveness); but the imaginative power of the classic myth enables modern authors to invest their works with poetic dialogue--very difficult to obtain in works concerned with the harsh realism of the bourgeois environment and twentieth-century man's lust for material gain...
...highlights of the entire production is John Graef as Don Alhambra, the Grand Inquisitor. With Graef's rich voice, excellent enunciation, and unctuously sinister air, it is difficult to imagine more perfect casting...