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...maneuvering them up against an electric fence in an effort to get more appropriations and higher postal rates. Last week the Senate's Post Office Committee 1) resolved unanimously to ban reduction of mail service, and 2) reported out a bill by which the reduction order could be forbidden by law. Since the Senate Appropriations Committee was also on the verge of adding $28 million to the postal budget, it seemed certain that all concerned could claim a political victory and that the postman would still ring twice...
...British. "The essential plot in British films is that of the conflict of forbidden impulses with conscience . . . British films evoke the feeling that danger lies in ourselves, especially in our impulses of destructiveness. In a cautionary way, they show what happens if these impulses break through, particularly where the weak become the victims. Thus they afford a catharsis at the same time that they demonstrate the value of defenses by showing the consequences bf their giving...
...American film plots are pervaded by false appearances ... It is in false appearances that the forbidden wishes are realized ... In a false appearance the heroine is promiscuous, the hero is a murderer, the young couple carry on an illicit affair . . . This device makes it possible for us to eat our cake and have it, since we can enjoy the suggested wish-fulfillments without emphatic guilt . . . American films [contend] that we should not feel guilty for mere wishes...
...daytime broadcasts, devoted to extolling . . . the so-called American way of life . . . divert the attention of American women from the acute social questions . . . It is strictly forbidden to mention by radio anything about the growing unemployment, the steady rise of the cost of living, about the hunger and misery, about the American slums. The very mention of the name 'worker' is not permitted...
...tough base Maclean set out to enjoy himself. Between 1937 and 1939, dressed in an old suit and carrying a rucksack, he explored thousands of miles of the Soviet Union, all the way from the Urals to the borders of Chinese Sinkiang and Afghanistan. Maclean broke into many a forbidden area by the simple expedient of quietly climbing aboard the appropriate train. Provincial units of the NKVD were often too bewildered by Maclean's sudden appearances to know just what to do about him. When they put agents on his trail, Maclean went complacently about his sightseeing of ancient...