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...instigation and effectiveness. Such support can only come from public realization that the biggest bomb is not in itself the best answer to defense problems. Entertainment media were used with great effect in the past war; now, with the addition of television, the defense situation could be made more lucid and vital to the American people than ever before...
Reuter went back to Berlin in 1918. A letter from Lenin recommended him as "a man with a brilliant and lucid mind-but a little too independent." Reuter soon broke with the Reds and returned to Socialism. Pravda called him a warmonger...
...Times's Critic Brooks Atkinson wrote: "Miss Hepburn is the one fresh element in the performance. She is an actress; and, as Gigi, she develops a full-length character from artless gaucheries in the first act to a stirring emotional climax in the last scene. [She] is spontaneous, lucid and captivating." The rest of the New York critics heartily agreed. Paramount Pictures and William Wyler, who had decided to keep their $2,200,000 production waiting for Audrey on the hunch that her play would not run a month, were obliged to twiddle their thumbs for half a year...
...come out of the war in Korea. It is also the most harrowing, a grim and terrible reminder of the nature of, the foe and the incredible Communist brutality toward the helpless. Yet it is a book curiously devoid of hatred or even resentment. It is the straight, lucid report of a keen observer who seems to have stored the horrors he witnessed and suffered in a cool corner of his punished brain...
Professor I. A. Richards' lucid essay, "The Idea of a University," seems out of place among the fiction. A thoughtful argument for returning to Plato's synoptic view of education, this material was first presented at an Eliot House symposium. Evidently the Advocate is reprinting Richards' text to bring it before a more limited audience...