Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...breach it filled while the Union was in the Navy's hands-but saving a few minutes of waiting time hardly justifies sinking the dining hall's budget into a morass of red ink or filling the Freshmen's only large common room with extra tables. An even more obvious remedy would merely involve extending the Union's serving hours for fifteen or thirty minutes at each meal. But actually such a move would be no solution at all, for, although the Union theoretically closes upwards of half an hour before its sister dining halls at both lunch and dinner...
...strengthened by a dramatic message from Washington that the U.S. had given up its share of Italian warships, awarded to the U.S. under the peace treaty. The Communists, seeing that De Gasperi was safe for the time being, withdrew their own no-confidence motion. The left's obvious strategy: to pin Italy's economic troubles on the Government as an excuse for further strikes and strife. Cried Nenni to De Gasperi: "You'll be sorry . . . perhaps within a few months ... or weeks...
...Russians are not striking out blindly. There is method in their madness. At the most obvious level they may hope to disrupt the smooth working of the Marshall Plan, which is designed to be a two-sided proposition. For its part, the United States proposes to furnish money and materials. But Europe is supposed to organize itself into an economic entity to make the best use of its resources. Communist inspired strikes and discontent could disrupt reconstruction and cause weariness and dissatisfaction in both the United States and Europe...
When one wants to know-something, the old Anglo-Saxon custom is to go find out. Here the seemingly obvious course calls for responsible interested parties on the University scene to go about the formation of an impartial, broad-based group to investigate the inner workings of the Hygiene Department and its standing in the intercollegiate picture. Membership could include representatives from the Student Council, Graduate Advisory Council, Law School Record, and Business School News as well as a spokesman for University Hall and a prominent Boston medic...
Altogether the English setting seems to be a mistake. Aside from the injection of a few Anglicisms and British accents, the play is more American than anything else. The focal point of the second act, a supposedly immoral letter, does not seem so terribly bad, and the author's obvious switch to English codes to support the validity of his characters' moral motivations, is a transparent device. Nor can the portrayels of intense emotion be palmed off as peculiarly English; they are poorly directed, and evoke very little. Sometimes they are ludicrous, and that adds to the evening's total...