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Little's sympathetic understanding of the undergraduate stems from a long period in Cambridge as both an administrator and teacher. He graduated from Harvard in 1918, and after a stretch in the Navy returned to the University to work toward his Master's degree. During the next fifteen years he alternated between University Hall and Waren House as an Instructor in English and an assistant dean. In 1935 while Curator of the Theatre Collection in Widener, he received his Ph.D...
...believe that government-sponsored housing projects and the climate a dynamic federal agency gives to local governments is a healthy thing, simply because there are fifteen million Americans living in homes judged sub-standard and more houses eroding each year. We do not expect the Administration to expand the program, simply because it is against its expressed philosophy of government. But, from the men who seemed sincere about "not turning back the clock," at least a sympathetic administration of the present program could be expected...
...tracks ever since he landed in Washington 12 weeks ago, paraded back & forth with signs denouncing him as an "assassin" and "murderer." They also lugged a big black coffin, which is supposed to symbolize the fate of Trujillo's opponents. The generalissimo, making his departure after the fifteen-minute opening session, probably did not even see the pickets. Twenty cops and bodyguards surrounded him as he climbed into his limousine...
...markets for power, private power companies wanted to build some "white elephants" themselves. But after the private utilities had constructed a number of dams on the Columbia's tributaries, the superiority of Government projects became apparent. Dams operated by one administration instead of a number of private companies produce fifteen to twenty per cent more electricity, each. The citizens of the Northwest, eager for multi-purpose projects, realized that no private power company was going to operate its dams to aid irrigation, flood control, navigation, or recreation...
Stressing the psychological motivations of each of his characters. Hitchcock moves his camera freely from present to past. But in so doing, he sacrifices plot continuity for frightening suspense. He saves the plot with a police-room discussions of former passions but weakens fifteen minutes of the film. Fortunately, after this the action picks up markedly. And except for an overlong comfroom scene, the film is again highly exciting, reaching a splendid crescendo with a chase through the halls of Quebec's Chateau Frontenac...