Word: remindful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that the German chaplain's name carried the totally irrelevant addition "enemy casualty." It might have been appropriate to omit the name altogether, but anyone who heard the hymns, readings, prayers and sermon that morning would have noted the great contradiction between the meanings and any inscription which would remind those dedicating the memorial that this man remained an enemy even in death. One need accept neither the cynical policy that it is time to rearm Germany if we would be "saved," nor a sentimental attitude of forgive and forget, to believe that a memorial in a Christian church, dedicated...
...well that the plot is practically non-existent until near the end of the second act. For its first three-fourths, the play is simply a below-par musical revue, a series of mediocre songs and dances unhampered by any connecting thread. Indeed, Jo Mielziner's one set does remind you that this is all taking place on a rather battered Showboat, but there is no other perceptible connection with...
...entertainment, it is not impressive. Perhaps pictures about pre-war situations are intrinsically harder to make well than pictures about post-war situations, but anyway this one never quite comes off. Its chief effect is to remind everyone that war and the draft are important threats these days...
...Canadians needed statistics to remind them that 1951 was a banner year. Evidence of the boom ran clear across the country, from the $9 million mining development to get more iron ore from under the Atlantic off Newfoundland, to the $27 million pulp mill built by Columbia Cellulose Co. (an affiliate of Celanese Corp. of America) near Prince Rupert in the Pacific Northwest. Other developments...
Before the Davis Cup matches with Sweden last week, U.S. Captain Frank Shields kept telling his players to keep plugging, that the Swedes were no pushovers. It was hardly necessary to remind the U.S. team that Sweden had given Australia a real fight a year ago before losing the round, 3-2. What's more, no one was quite sure whether or not the Swedish team, in its indifferent showing this year, was up to some foxy strategy: not once, in two warm-up tournaments, had the Swedes met a U.S. Cup player...