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Harvard would thus be making a valuable indirect contribution to the war effort, ends the editorial--"helping to keep alive the vestiges of the humanities and giving necessarily regimented thought a chance to free itself, if only for a morning...
Harvard, while it is contributing a great deal directly to the war effort in the service schools, could increase its contribution even further in this indirect way--helping to keep alive the vestiges of the humanities and giving necessarily regimented thought a chance to free itself, if only for a morning...
Next day the Governor's speech was relegated to the background. Out came headlines, proclaiming "Patriot's Day Speaker Flays Communism." One article led off with the false indirect quotation that the chaplain "condemned an expediency which was muzzling those who realized that communism was as great a threat to democracy as is Nazism...
...London, as a full director, MacDonald made the documentary Men of the Lightship, turned out a dozen or so successful and forgettable potboilers, filmed the blitz fires of London from the dome of St. Paul's. His shyness once drew from King Vidor an indirect compliment: "That guy would have been a top Hollywood director but he just didn't know how to blow his own horn." Said MacDonald last fortnight, to a preview group of film and pressmen: "These combat scenes can be done in Hollywood and you can do them very nicely, without loss of life...
...Eyestrain will be diminished with indirect lighting from a combination of fluorescent and incandescent lamps mounted in a cove about two feet from the ceiling...