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...cattle baron (Lionel Barrymore) lives in a pretty ranch house with his good wife (Lillian Gish), one good son (Joseph Gotten) and one very bad son (Gregory Peck). When the railroad (civilization) tries to encroach on Barrymore's rangeland, all hell breaks loose in the form of rip-roaring gunplay, overheated histrionics, and the tattoo of hoofbeats across gorgeously tinted landscapes...
...must rip aside the iron curtain of the Soongs and Kungs," he railed. He lashed at T.V. from every point of the pamphleteer's compass, denouncing not only his policies but his personality: "Haughty and taciturn. ... As for his knowledge of Chinese culture, even after chemists analyzed it down to the smallest fraction, one can hardly find any trace...
...people can get seats?" The crowds hunched together on the planked seats, made room for more. At halftime, underdog Purdue left the floor, one point ahead of league-leading Wisconsin. As the crowd got to its feet cheering, one of the packed bleacher-stands sagged. There was the ugly rip of splintering wood; cheers died in people's throats, and instead there were panicky cries. The stand collapsed, bringing 4,000 fans down with it. The toll: three dead, 250 injured...
What is education's "first job?" Guessing the answer is a favorite parlor game for educators. Last week Dean William F. Russell of Teachers College (Columbia) added his answer. Said he: "The first job of education for democracy at the moment is to rip the sheep's clothing off the wolf-the Bear-and to let Soviet Communistic dictatorship stand revealed to the world in its true light...
...assembled for several months, and though details on voltage, tonnage, and other by-words of modern technology are not yet ready for public consumption, workmen north of the Yard are readying the cyclotron base and accompanying research building for the day when the massive maguets begin to rip apart atoms...