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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like anyone lavishing money around, and often incurring more ill will among those he disappoints than friendship among those he favors, Uncle Sam finds it hard to get across the notion that aid programs are not certificates of sympathy and merit but barometers of danger, need and opportunity. Cold-war spending is a jumble of crash programs, hard bargaining and erratic generosity. The circumstances which determine who among friends and neutrals gets the most money, however, are not all of U.S. making. Sometimes the degree of a country's exposure to military and political intrusion by the Communists...
Moreover, for the first time this year, the Crimson came up against a team that was a little faster than it was. The Wolverine linemen that were left were all extremely fast and often beat the varsity defensemen to a stray puck in the Crimson zone...
...acting, however, is superb. As Rene LaGuen, the sick, bewildered half-idiot, Marcel Mouloudji is unforgettable. With his raggedy walk and shapeless body, he looks often like a teddy bear but seems, at times, a man possessed. LeGuen's cellmates, Raymond Pelligrin as Gino and Antoine Balpetre as Dr. Dutoit, the one a young Corsican feudist and the other a resigned old man, make proud and individualistic people for whom legal 'responsibility' can only be irrelevant. It merely intensifies the private obligation to die well. As Rene's kid brother, Georges Pouliouly sometimes seems less bewildered than still...
...Every so often somebody with a very intent look on his face comes into this building looking for the book editor, "the fellow who is always mouthing off about art, and where is his office...
...Make a World" is a book which deals deeply with the difficulties of judgement in a world where man often seems too small to control his own creations. Yet these creations can be controlled by man alone, and man must work with man to control them. The events since Alamagordo have added a new urgency to old, unsolved human problems...