Word: homefront
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...German accent, plays "the young, golden god of war"; Montgomery Clift is a tenement Jew persecuted in his barracks; Dean Martin portrays the Broadway high-liner who goodhumoredly admits his own cowardice. And in an example of sophisticated sex, May Britt takes the part of a German commander's homefront spouse--a sort of Berlin community bed-warmer with those "rest your head here, soldier" eyes and a half-mast evening gown leaving only the moral question to a man's imagination...
...tackled its immense long-term problems (the economy is stagnant, and overcommitted-by as much as 37% of its foreign trade-to the Soviet bloc). Addressing his new one-party Parliament early in the week, Nasser seemed almost too subdued to be true. He summarized his regime's homefront achievements ("Our greatest gain is hope"), and bore down on the need to "build, build, build, to make up for the past, to face the future." Said Nasser: "We must always remember that our people are increasing by more than 300,000 new citizens every year...
...stretches in hospital gave him time to analyze the gulf between homefront and warfront-something that never fails to prey on the minds of returning war correspondents. "After an absence of two years, New York looks normal," wrote Timesman Atkinson last week. "Despite many shortages in variety and volume, the food is excellent. . . . Shop windows along Fifth Avenue look brazenly luxurious, although everyone complains that 'you can't buy a thing. . . .' People seem to be living under tension, which is apparent in the boorishness and impatience of public manners. There is an overtone of desperation...
...hands by providing adequate community care for her children, and by relieving her of the burden of obtaining and preparing the main meal of the day. Third, give us the truth about our defeats as well as our victories as soon as they happen, whether these are on the homefront or the battlefield. When these things are done and a fair and truly comprehensive count is taken, the whole world will realize that there's nothing the matter with American women and there never has been...
...effect of so-called Presidential indecision, regarding strikers and homefront, etc. will be forgotten by the time of the fourth-term decision. The real detriment to the future of the present Administration, a fear for the preservation of an independent legislative branch, has been discredited. . . . The people can again afford to indulge in their favorite personality-Franklin D. Roosevelt, without fear of losing their democratic process...