Word: enjoyments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Students from all parts of the University, of all beliefs, have joined in a committee which new issues a call to boycott the Club 100. The members of the committee do not enjoy the prospect of overt acts of public pressure. But these men, whose names constitute a far-reaching cross-section of Harvard sentiment, fear even more the example of condoned prejudice that has cropped up so close to the University. It is for the men of the University to see that this racism is faced off and rooted...
...huge, machine-like symbol of a nation. Opera lovers will dote on the Puccini sound track, but moviegoers who have no special affection for opera are likely to find the protracted, underlighted operatic sequences dull. There is, however, some good fierce melodrama which almost anyone can enjoy...
...what was the goal? When was it to be reached? And . . . what species of sub-man would have survived to enjoy them? That was how he had suddenly seen it. . .There was no goal because all was changed. . . The goal was an illusion. Therefore, it was necessary to fashion a political philosophy which would care for the living, for the present as for the future, for the future was in the present...
Even those who enjoy the picture of John Bull freezing within the Gothic confines of his Empire should be able to discern American responsibilities in the British crisis. As an expedient, President Truman's offer of coal should be transmitted again, this time coupled with promises of equal aid to the continent so that Mr. Clement Attlee will not be forced to decline the offer in face of greater need elsewhere. And if western Europe can be bound into an economic self-sufficiency only by efficient English production, the Welsh and Sussex mines must be brought out of the 19th...
...innovation of alternating technicolor and monochrome to depict earth and heaven. The latter is a highly fanciful creation, and the Hollywood-Bowlish representation of the High Court of Judgment stretches the imagination almost beyond the bounds of good taste. But no one, whether atheist or fatalist, can fail to enjoy the high humor of the heavenly consternation when a "clerical error" results in the unscheduled prolongment of the doomed flier's life-on-earth...