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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trouble with The Rugged Path is that it is not dynamic enough to avoid seeming emotionally dated. Another trouble is that Playwright Sherwood never really comes to grips with the liberal's precise role in the present world. He would have had a harder hitting play if, instead of leafing through the whole testament, he had concentrated on one good text. There is scattered good talk, fitful eloquence, passingly sharp incident, in The Rugged Path-but the play as a whole is a tangled Sherwood Forest of ideas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Nov. 19, 1945 | 11/19/1945 | See Source »

...chaplains had all been in war heaters and their battlefront experiences lad convinced them that the Church needs renewed warnings: | Organized religion has allowed church members to remain religious illiterates. The trouble probably lies in an indirectivay of teaching with high-sounding theo-ogical terms instead of plain talk, which he chaplains found more effective. Hence-orth, civilian clergymen will have to be )etter trained in modern educational methods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Church's Job | 11/19/1945 | See Source »

...Spot. When B.A.U. first opened, officers half-expected their khaki charges to idle away their time on the glamorous Basque beaches. Instead, G.l.s lugged their textbooks to the beach when they went swimming, caroused-if at all-only on weekends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Contented G.l.s | 11/19/1945 | See Source »

...Nine of the largest U.S. airlines* last week, acting as a group, gave in to labor's demand for no reduction in take-home pay by granting their employes a 40-hour work week (instead of 48 hours) at current wages, effective...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAGES & SALARIES: No Crack in the Dike | 11/19/1945 | See Source »

...Blunts formed the Red River Valley Popcorn Co., built a $25,000 processing plant, began urging Oklahoma farmers to plant popcorn instead of cotton or peanuts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMING: Pop Goes the Corn | 11/19/1945 | See Source »

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