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...secret, producing a daily increasing number of atomic bombs . . . announcing officially that this "Damoclean sword" would be kept especially from the U.S., etc. All this would throw our country into a state of alarm which would make the effect of the Pearl Harbor attack seem like a W.C.T.U. picnic. . . . There would be no reconversion- only armament. We would insist that Russia either share the secret or "destroy every atomic bomb, smash every facility for making another," before a basis of unity could be established and the U.N. fulfill its proper function...
...offered this term, and overcrowding in most classes--all attest to the fact that the College is not prepared to give the veteran full value. But more discouraging is the delayed realization by University officials that the summer term this year will be a great deal more than a picnic session for Freshmen and high school teachers. The veteran waits impatiently to learn how wide a selection of courses he will be offered and who will teach them. The married veteran, concerned more with material things, finds that, unless he can produce shelter where there is none, he must forsake...
...fact that they are getting to be almost as common as the old Keystone Kops. In the last year or so it has been Dr. George Sanders, Dr. Sydney Greenstreet, Dr. Ingrid Bergman, etc., while assorted neurotics and amnesiacs have roved the screen in a veritable lunatics' picnic. In an unsettled world, nothing apparently so fascinates Hollywood as the wonders of an unsettled mind, especially when it inhabits a beautiful body...
Anywhere else, the fog that seeped into noses, ears and throats would have frayed thousands of tempers, but Londoners had long since come to regard a Big Fog as a kind of picnic. Under the cloak of pea-soup anonymity, whistling as they felt their way, strangers walked and talked with strangers in a manner unthinkable in bright daylight...
...summer sunshine going to the temples of their race. Four proud infidels alone proclaimed their dissent: four Indians from the gates of Balliol, in freshly laundered white flannels and neatly pressed blazers, with snow-white turbans on their heads, and in their plump, brown hands bright cushions, a picnic basket and the Unpleasant Plays of Bernard Shaw...