Word: save
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have just seen the statement in your Oct. 15 issue, referring to the 34 U.S. clergymen who sent a protest to President Truman against the horror of the atomic bomb. You say this statement "seemed to imply that its use might have been excusable to 'save ourselves in an extremity of desperation...
...with her. Later, in a bit of atomic whimsy, Columnist Thompson wrote: "Scene: A ward in Bellevue. A screaming bearded gentleman is being hustled into a straitjacket. Guard: 'Completely coo-coo. Found him trying to board a ship. Yelled he was going to the Big Three meeting to save the world. Screamed he represented all the people on earth. The nut said he had a teeny-weeny atomic bomb and knew exactly where to drop it. Said he was commissioned by God.' Patient falls heavily to floor. Headlines: .. . 'Mysterious Explosion Destroys Bellevue. All Maniacs Missing...
...brings further news of returning luxuries in America and further evidence . . . that the war is almost forgotten and its aftermath ignored. Europe is moving toward its worst winter for three centuries; Governor Lehman, the head of UNRRA, explains with how little sacrifice to themselves the American people could save Europe from starving, but nothing seems to be done...
...these people were not obviously the well-meaning, intelligent pair van Druton has intended, irony might save the play. As it is, "The Mermaids Singing" is an empty if craftsmanlike display of immorality...
Fallen Angel (20th Century-Fox) drags its feathers through an hour and a half of melodramatic fiddle-faddle that is just promising enough to sharpen the edge of disappointment. Good direction by Otto (Laura) Preminger and competent acting cannot quite save a picture whose whole is far more trivial than the sum of its individual parts...