Word: latters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...need now is to win the war rapidly and after the victory to counteract the "greater stratification of our society." Public education has been the chief means of reaching the latter ideal, but it is yet "far from an accomplished fact," he added...
...cast. Jack Sheehan, Allan Tower, Louise Kanasireff, and actor-director Robert Perry match her with professional experience and smoothness. Also, there is the usual and pleasant sprinkling of handsome young actors and beautiful young actresses that have come to be a welcome characteristic of the summer stage. Of the latter category, Richard Barthelmess' daughter Mary is unquestionably the most beautiful and the most pleasant. A great deal of credit also goes to pinch-hitter Jolyon Baker for his playing of the nephew-in-everybody'shair, which he learned in the afternoon before the opening. Except for an occasional drag where...
...when an unofficial sampling of Bellboys revealed that they considered their courtyard to be "the beauty spot of Cambridge." Elephant supporters rose in revolt to protest, only to be met by a Lowell statement that their courtyard contains a dogwood, four lilacs, and a cherry. Latest word from "The Latter-Day Eden" is that they expect to counter the Lowell claim by pointing out that their courtyard has Merriman ad a large tree...
...survival or a social revolution? Author de Sales answers: Both. He calls World War II "this multidimensional crisis," and finds the key to its irrational pattern in "the vertical conflicts in which nations fight one another, and the horizontal conflicts which are ideological, political, social and economic." These latter "transcend boundaries," for no nation, including the Axis powers, is free of them. "They overlap purely national allegiances, and disrupt the national fronts." Author de Sales warns his readers that this picture "is anything but simple. . . . The vertical conflicts are frequently in apparent or real opposition to the horizontal ones...
DEATH ON THE AISLE-Frances and Richard Lockridge-Lippincott ($2). Mr. & Mrs. North, especially the latter, lend their exasperating assistance to Lieut. Weigand of the New York police in clearing up the murders of a theatrical angel and an actress who knew too much. Good plot, highlighted by Pam North's wacky humor...