Word: fixe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Would Perón also save from devouring inflation those few hundred pesos socked away at the postal-savings bank? Guillermo had an answer for his father: "Perón will fix everything...
...Wonderful." By week's end the new life had become pleasant routine. Mrs. Isabella B. Luckenbach, wife of a lieutenant colonel in Berlin, glowed with approval of her big, ten-room house in suburban Dahlem. Said she: "Naturally I'm going to fix things the way I like, but all in all I think it's wonderful. . . . I guess the biggest surprise was the plumbing. I always thought continental plumbing wasn't up to our standards. But we've got the grandest tile bathrooms in this house -three of them-one on each floor...
...basis for Mr. Welles' effort. Adapted to afford frequent opportunities for song and dance, it ends up as a series of skits--and, like most revues, it runs hot and cold all evening. When Phileas Fogg is being seduced by Egyptian dancing girls on bluffed by Inspector Fix, he is funny--not so when he is saving Hindu widows from their pyres...
...casting of "Around the World" is the most fortunate element in it. From the dancers (incidentally the most beautiful and the mot daring of this and probably any recent season) through Julie Warren and Mary Healy as the female leads to Alan (Falstaff) Reed as fix and Larry Laurence as Fogg's valet, Passport out, the east performs with unusual freshness, gaiety, and enjoyment...
Morrison's picture may not disturb the "just another weapon" school of thought which relaxes securely in its belief that defenses will fix everything. But Louis N. Ridenour shows the impotency of anything under one hundred percent defense, and the physical impossibility of anything over ninety percent defense. It is the huge destructive power of the bomb that makes even ten percent efficiency economical from an attacker's viewpoint. For, per square mile destroyed, an atomic bomb of the Hiroshima class is six times cheaper than other explosives, according to General Arnold, and possibly up to one hundred times cheaper...