Word: directness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gaposchkin described science as "merely a shorthand description of the behavior of the universe," and denied that natural science can divulge any direct laws for social behavior...
...efficient team." The act was a compromise affair, reflecting the Navy's old fear of having the other services gang up against it, and the Air Force's equally strong desire to get out from under Army control. The Army wanted to make sure it would get sufficient direct air support, and the Navy plugged for carrier task-forces as our main striking weapon. After the long fight, the office of the Secretary of Defense was finally created to supervise three specialized secretaries for Air, Navy and Army. The basic conflicts on wartime functions made the services wary of putting...
...topic this evening is "The Direct Responsibility of a School of Education for the Improvement of Education...
...bubbled with plans of his own. Next month he expects to launch his own firm, Laurence Olivier Productions, with a new James M. Bridie play starring Dame Edith Evans. Tied down to his present busy Old Vic schedule until July, Olivier will neither act in the new show nor direct it, but next season he intends to keep busy as angel, manager, director and star...
...common in Europe to have one man both write the script and direct the film. (Rossellini and Pagnol are outstanding examples of the success of this method.) Well, somehow or other, a man named Joseph L. Mankiewiez convinced 20th Century Fox that he could do it too. "A Letter to Three Wives" is by no means a work of art; but it is very funny, and has some value as a critical commentary on the American Way of Life...