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...Unanticipated Disaster." The Classical Greek and Oriental idea of the progress of man, says Author Niebuhr, was that there was no such thing. Like the endless cycles of nature, the projects and enterprises of men and nations were thought to flourish and die again & again in an eternal circle of recurrences. Man's only hope, Plato taught, was to free his spirit from imprisonment in the living death of the bodily world. When the Biblical-Christian conception of history replaced this classical view, says Niebuhr, "the dynamism of Western culture was made possible." Christian teaching viewed and still views...
...Golden Bug. In the test tube, neomycin worked against strains of tuberculosis bacilli which might become resistant to streptomycin (i.e., learn how to flourish alongside streptomycin). The bacilli did not become resistant to neomycin as they had to the older drug. Tests with animals are not yet complete, because there has not been enough of the stuff to work with. But in mice and on embryos from chicken eggs it worked against Staphylococcus aureus (the "golden bug" which causes boils and abscesses) and against Salmonella schottmülleri (which causes a kind of paratyphoid fever). One bug is affected...
...visiting Easterner once quipped that "Los Angeles consists of 40 suburbs in search of a city." In the search, Greater Los Angeles supports the astonishing total of 258 newspapers-including five major dailies, 17 minor ones, 71 paid weeklies and 165 giveaways. The haphazard little community giveaways, which flourish in Los Angeles as nowhere else in the country, exist on the ads of local merchants, run only community news...
...twists and literally-translated idiomatic expressions made the play more direct and forceful, the hand of the middle-man not being there. However, a play with a hero such as this Pierre Renault is probably not creditable in the land of Washington and the Cherry Tree. Such people can flourish in foreign soils, and well. But not here. So Mr. Barry has left the play distinctly Gallic...
This reviewer always felt that Bob Hope was a better buffoon than rapid fire gagster. Apparently Director McLeod thought the same thing because he has Hope superbly overplaying his part. He does the commonplace with a flourish and the spectacular by mistake. He is at his best when he pulls the wrong tooth and when he swaggers around town under the impression he is a dead shot...