Word: latters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Public and private school graduates have different values of success in society, the survey continues. While the former group measures its standing by achievement, the latter puts prime emphasis on acceptability...
Business too has been quick to emphasis the value of the humanities in rounding out its future executives, and has gauged its recent financial contributions accordingly. While there is danger lest a sort of latter-day Babbitry rear its head out of such business support, industrial interest in itself hardly betokens a decline for the humanities...
...Communist." In the investigation which ultimately led to Lamont's indictment, the Senator used as evidence against him the Army's reference in a so-called "Communist" instruction manual to Lamont's book, The Peoples of the Soviet Union. The condemned military manual, he reasoned, infected Lamont vicariously. the latter declined to testify on the ground that McCarthy had no authority as a Senator to question a private author's right to freedom of the press...
Dealing with the latter problem, the film describes the symbiotic association of a cop and his "stoolie." The cop rises from a rookie patrolman to a plain-clothes lieutenant on the strength of tips from his informer. In exchange, the "stool pigeon" receives pardons and paroles for crimes he commits in other districts, and in the process, he progresses for apple snatching in Hay-market Square to the $2,500,000 theft. As the camera moves gracefully from one non sequitur to the next, the fatherly policeman is alternately hopeful and disillusioned in his efforts to reform the informer...
...same instances the author should have left more to the imagination. The playgoer must be prepared for sporadic visits by the devil's cohorts, Sebena, Serena, and Salambo. The first two are scantily-clothed nymphs, who do lusty dances in the priest's parlor under fittingly blue lights. The latter, Salambo, is a messenger dressed something like the Batman. If this trio is expendable, one could also make a case for the deletion of all God's little codgers, including two stuffed donkey's a bird, and someone dressed up as a lion...