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Opposition Leader Winston Churchill complimented the well-groomed, auburn-haired Chancellor on his "lucid, comprehensive statement . . . and evident lack of hatred or malice . . ." Tories would scrutinize the details and heckle the Labor government wherever they could in the coming budgetary debate, but privately they admitted that it was "a damn good budget-we'd have had to include most of his points if it had been our budget...
...Kimpton left Chicago to become dean of students at Stanford. There he stayed for three years, a gregarious, wisecracking lion of campus parties, a lucid, articulate teacher of a course in Kant. In & out of class he plugged the Hutchins line so successfully that Stanford next fall is revamping its rigid curriculum to permit bright students to push ahead into advanced study. When Hutchins persuaded him to return to Chicago as vice president in charge of university development, Stanford students howled in protest. The Stanford Daily put out a special issue dedicated to him. The graduating class made...
Italy's Pier Angeli, a slender, childlike girl of 18, plays a war bride with no makeup or fancy hairdo, and nothing of what Hollywood knows as sex appeal. Her lean, pretty face radiates something much rarer in Hollywood leading ladies: a lucid innocence through which emotions flow without let or artifice...
...Science and Common Sense" originated in lectures, first in a series given at Yale on how to teach "understanding science" and then in the class talks delivered here during the experimental years of Natural Sciences 4. The book has the advantages of Conant's lucid lecture style. He takes care to tell the reader what he will say, why he wants to say it, and how he will say it, before actually attacking a problem. A book about science necessarily has to tangle with some technical material which could obscure main points for readers particularly ill-equipped with scientific fundamentals...
...Charles Nolte is more successful as Billy because he does not exceed the narrow limits of the part. He is convincing in his simplicity. Dennis King is superb in the best conceived and written part, that of Captain Vere. His smallest gesture is sure and meaningful. King presents a lucid portrayal of a man torn between what should be and what must be. At the same time he preserves Vere's identity as a symbol, not of the ultimate good, but of the only good attainable on earth...