Word: musts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although filming real-life stories undoubtedly saves on that expensive cinematic item, imagination, it produces troublesome shortcomings. A documentary approach saves on sets and set-pieces, but the endings, as in real life, are either unconvincing or else must be picked over to be good box-office material. To show the mother scrubbing the floors in the end would be cinematic suicide, even though it's the truth...
...Bicycle riding on these premises is forbidden," proclaim signs in the Yard, but velocipeding students must have licenses for their vehicles just the same, Cambridge police pointed out yesterday...
These blocs must be the target of the New England student committees. As Vandenberg pointed out in his speech, the current legislation does not claim to be a cure-all, nor does it promise immediate results. But something will be passed, good or bad. The Harvard-Radcliffe Committee has rightly seen that its job is to hammer away at this Congress, in an attempt to keep the ERP bill within the broad and constructive frame of Marshall's original suggestion...
...several committees in these New England colleges have a job to do and they must do it quickly. In opening the ERP debate yesterday on the Senate floor, Senator Vandenberg urged his colleagues to pass the bill within two weeks. His plea for speedy action has been sharply underlined by the rapid turnover of events during the past week across the Atlantic. But the determined Congressional opposition to vital aspects of Marshall's proposals will not necessarily be jolted into line by news of the Communist coup in Czechoslovakia or the ominous pressure put on Finland by the Soviets...
...legislation because it is afraid the final result will somehow be less than perfect. Others complain that the whole recovery problem should go to the United Nations, where they hope that the Russians would be persuaded to agree with us. Still another powerful school of thought holds that we must wield European aid as a political weapon first and foremost, and that any possible economic benefits to the nations concerned are of relative unimportance. And there are only a few steps between this position and the belief that a so-called "preventive" war can alone preserve...