Word: reasons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stressing the importance of a well rounded social life during the two-year period, Conant saw no reason why such a combination of job training and "education for a full life of civic responsibility" might not be more valuable than the courses now offered in a large and crowded university...
...Never Out of Breath." Britons in all walks of life learned to trust Temple for the same reason that church leaders of many creeds and countries did: everyone could be sure that whatever he proposed was based on carefully pondered Christian principle. He worked, preached and traveled on a scale that resembled John Wesley. The steady flow of his public meetings and services, of his private counsel and consolation, never let up. "It was all very breathless," said a colleague, "but he was never out of breath...
...plays, the play he meant to write in Slimmer and Smoke is easy to approve of. The only trouble is, he has not written it. It remains only a lucid diagram. Summer and Smoke has moments of sad, sharp insight, but little coherence and intensity as a whole. The reason is partly structural. In none of his plays has Tennessee Williams made a classic frontal assault on drama. Writing episodically, with tricks of stagecraft and a crutchlike use of offstage music, he has always trusted to a vague sense of poetry and a vivid sense of theater to pull...
Italy's moviemakers, who have turned out some of the world's best postwar pictures on a shoestring (Open City, To Live in Peace, Paisan, Shoeshine), had reason to feel bitter last week about their American competitors. Hollywood was pressing its advantage in the one department in which it invariably excels: money...
After four years of research and writing, Freeman can make this measured judgment: "The patriot emerged slowly. Two generations ago this statement would have been considered defamation. The integrity of the United States was assumed, for some reason, to presuppose the flawlessness of Washington's character and vice versa . . . More Americans will be relieved than will be shocked to know that Washington sometimes was violent, emotional, resentful...