Word: problems
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...registered his disapproval of any kind of modern war in a minority note. But the report itself gave short shrift to his view: "There are those who say that the solution is to counter aggression by love. Ultimately that may be true. But is it applicable to the problem that confronts us? ... A nation that by disarmament rendered itself defenseless would not be assisting in the prevention of aggression, which is the only way to preserve justice in the world...
...showing better pictures than before and showing them sooner (though few get first runs), and by keeping prices down (average: 55? for adults), they were giving many a regular movie house a run for its money. Getting a consistent share of better films is still a drive-in problem. But distributors cannot ignore the drive-in customer capacity: now almost one-twelfth of the national "indoor" seating...
...problem is still baffling. No matter how massive the screen (one of the biggest: 65 by 50 ft.), or how super-powerful the water-cooled projection equipment, a good many people have to sit almost a thousand feet from the screen, and have trouble seeing details. The ozoners had not yet found a way around that...
...movie (like the novel) propounds the obvious: that when a poor man (Van Heflin) marries a rich girl (Barbara Stanwyck) her money is a problem. The passages satirizing Wall Street and the New Deal are so plainly extraneous and contrived that even the actors seem embarrassed. In the end, Right & Left are reconciled in one mighty smooch in a darkened Washington apartment...
...problem of arousing the voters' interest is a particularly difficult one at Harvard. Council labors are, for the most part, hardly of the type that catch the imagination; Councilmen and candidates for office have been understandably squeamish about making a lot of noise about issues or their own qualifications for office. It has been a pretty sober affair, as undergraduates who voted last Thursday--or who didn't take the trouble to vote--can testify...