Word: light
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more experimental school. Like his friends, Justices Brandeis and Frankfurter, and their own precursor, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, he is more apt to believe that ethical and legal principles can not be so rigidly fixed; their touchstone is whether an action appears to be good in the light of the needs of the day. It was and is a philosophy generally regarded as "civilized," and Dean Acheson is in all respects a highly civilized...
...according to some experts, by automatic celestial navigation, the missile watching selected stars and steering by them. The "terminal guidance" problem, i.e., landing it on the target, is tougher. No one has explained publicly how a "seeing eye" could recognize a target by any influences it sent out (heat, light, magnetism) which the enemy could not screen off or simulate. The missile could not send back the observations of its eye by television, like the television bombs of World War II, for human brains to analyze. Since the very short waves used by television do not follow the curve...
Today "Lost Horizon" and "Holiday" form the bill. The first, a screen adaptation of James Hilton's novel, stars Ronald Coleman, and deserves its recall and its reputation as an exciting adventure film. "Holiday" is a Phillip Barry show with Katherine Hepburn and Cary Grant handling the lead light comedy roles...
Died. Battling Levinsky* (real name: Barney Lebrowitz), 58, onetime (1916-20) light-heavyweight boxing champion who fought 560 bouts in a 19-year ring career, once fought 41 times in 40 weeks; in Philadelphia...
Last week's production accepted, indeed courted, Richard as melodrama. Everything was painted in bold primary colors; a good deal was literally bathed in baleful crimson light. But the thing had pace and a certain crude excitement, and Richard Whorf's usurper, limping of foot and swift of brain, was enjoyably malign. There was nothing subtle about any of it, and toward the end there was much that was strident; but if never anything more, it was a pretty good show...