Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite its painfully vital theme and generally plausible story, On Whitman Avenue is flattish propaganda and flatter theater. Working from the problem in, instead of from the people out, it consistently substitutes cardboard for flesh & blood, cliches for sharp, individual reactions. Dramatically, moreover, it soon hobbles, eventually halts. Fairly interesting while matters are coming to a head, from then on it can only .repeat its wrangles, restate its issues, and delay its ending...
...Japanese both came early to Paul Jacoulet, whose father was a French teacher in Japan. Says he: "Almost before I spoke, I was glad to have a pencil in my hand." Young Paul used to spend his weekly sen for color prints instead of candy. Now, sitting in a kimono on the floor of his western-style villa (six miles' train-ride from Tokyo), Jacoulet designs his own prints...
...Dunster are relatively small, which will require exclusive use of double bunks in order to increase the present 240 men to 350. Kirkland will expand from 250 to about 375; while Eliot, which will be returned to the University from the Naval ROTC next fall, will accommodate 450 instead of its customary...
With student approval now assured, current interest centers on the choice of the individual delegate who will represent not only the University but the entire New England area. Application forms which must be filled out by noon, Monday, instead of Saturday as previously announced, are now available to anyone interested in serving at Phillips Brooks House...
Purpose of the ad: to sell the special monthly "Atomic Service" of Babson's Reports, Inc., which promised to help clients to "invest in companies which have little invested in such cities." Instead of new clients, Babson got a storm of protest from Boston businessmen...