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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Greene has treated a common enough triangle story in religious rather than sociological-or even psychological-terms. The eye of God rather than of neighborhood gossips is upon it, and the problem is not only of the conscience but of the soul. This vast and difficult theme haunts its Catholic-convert playwright without for a moment ever easing his heart. Blinkered Catholicism and clear-eyed rationalism he alike denounces; indeed, beyond a blindly clutched and tormenting faith, Greene's spiritual cupboard seems bare. His well-meaning priest remarks that he has never read Paradise Lost-whose author also...
...shock. To save time, he usually gives whole blood, although all he wants is plasma. This way, a Niagara of blood has been wasted, because there has been no practical method of keeping red cells or whole blood more than about three weeks, and keeping plasma is even more difficult...
Harvard's budget did not finish so far in the black that it cannot use these additional funds. But it is difficult to imagine another department of the University that could better spend the money now allocated to it. It is even more serious to consider jeopardizing the worth of a $650,000 scholarship program to save one-twentieth of that amount...
Overrating the importance of the FOA's tentative schedule is difficult. Designating Asia as the critical area for communism, the FOA proposes increased expenditures from Pakistan to Japan, with greatest emphasis on Indo-China. The FOA would administer nearly 80 percent of all foreign aid funds in that area, incorporating an Asian equivalent of the Organization for European Economic Cooperation. The program would make it easier for the assisted nations to develop their trade and mutual aid. Unfortunately, the insecure existence of the FOA casts a sad shadow on the future of foreign aid programs...
...only is it more difficult to offer definite guides for administration, but the lack of Congressional approval provides little security to men like Premier Yoshida of Japan who have repeatedly called for American assistance. Also, there are numerous FOA personnel who must plod through the quick sands of doubt in day to day operation of the program. In Indo-China alone, the FOA has 120 men helping with the long range assistance, involving $100 million for this fiscal year alone...