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...even assuming the highly questionable thesis that classification of basic scientific research is beneficial, there is still no point in keeping secrets from an enemy who knows them all the time. And as the Russian scientific offensive gains momentum, the basic material that we possess and the Russians don't will decrease even further, if indeed it has not already reached the vanishing point...
...becoming increasingly unwilling to vote funds to buy weapons that are already obsolete. One French delegate, for example, has questioned the propriety and wisdom of France continuing to spend funds for building ships capable of killing a submarine at a range of 1,000 yards while America and Engand possess the secret of killing them at 10,000 yards by nuclear weapons...
Fire Under Her Skin definitively proves that the "realism" of De Sica, Fellini, and others has become a stock formula and has lost the wonderful freshness that it once seemed to possess. All the inevitable ingredients are here, the triangle--or is it a pentagon--of passions, the sensitive man who kills the thing he loves, etc., replete with much fondling and other fine Gallic touches. Of course the "unhappy ending" has become stock too, with the usual frustrations, murders, and general cataclysm. The plot is so implausible that the outcome seems apparent before this charming idyll has ground through...
...that our collective security efforts must be supported by cooperative economic action.* The present offers a challenging opportunity for improvement of trading conditions and the expansion of trade throughout the free world." In sum, the conference proposed taking the fullest advantage of an all-important fact: "The free nations possess vast assets, both material and moral. These, in the aggregate, are far greater than those of the Communist world...
...teacher, he may well lack that vivid excitement before fact or expression which is the basis of real communication. As a scholar, he may lack the means which a rigorous training in disciplines and techniques ought to have given him. If he knows that he does not possess the necessary tools with which a piece of work ought to be tackled, and that his training in form was so deficient that he cannot effectively put forward a valuable contribution, he will invent one or another reason for avoiding further efforts in scholarship. Or worse, if he does not recognize...