Word: personal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Certainly these inadequacies in the election demand reform. Candidates must be asked to present orally their platform so that voters will not ballot solely for a name but for a person whose competence they know. This is especially important in elections occurring in the first part of the freshman year, when the class has virtually no acquaintance with the candidates beforehand. In the future, furthermore, nominations must be made sufficiently in advance of the election to permit ample time for election preparation...
...therein lies the virtue and the appeal of this film. It is a story of little people, faced with a big threat to their usually placid existence, and it is handled accordingly--without melodrama or bombast. There is no etching of characters and situations in black and white--each person emerges as an individual, and even the German soldier is a human being rather thn a symbol of evil...
...person trained in a few practical skills is not an educated person, nor is he necessarily "life-adjusted." Only through a solid acquaintance with the humanities can we expect to retain a true perspective of life and of the world in which we live. To reject the so-called "impractical" subjects in our high schools is to deny our cultural heritage. . . . It is tantamount to admitting . . . that learning, as far as we in America are concerned, is nothing more than a quick method for discovering which button to push and when to push...
...associates had not risked trouble with the Nazis by feeding, housing and clothing, their slave laborers better than the law decreed. Presiding Judge Charles B. Sears of Buffalo, N.Y., also found "some shade of justification" in Flick's plea that German industry itself was being persecuted in his person. As for the $40,000 yearly payments to the Nazi Party, Judge Sears said it was perhaps "not too high a premium to insure personal safety in the fearful days of the Third Reich...
...Rags. Through Christie's auction rooms have passed the glories of some of England's greatest houses. The parade was started in 1766 by James Christie, an enterprising young Scot, with his first catalogued sale of "jewels, plates, firearms, china, etc. . . . late the property of a noble person (deceased...