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Torment (Oxford Films) and A Cage of Nightingales (Lopert), both European films, tell in schoolboy terms of an old, bitter, incurable conflict: the free, self-responsible, self-governing spirit v. authority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Also Showing Apr. 28, 1947 | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

Plus & Minus. In Danville, Va., when the local radio, on a tip from a nameless schoolboy, broadcast the news that classes were called off, School Superintendent G. L. Johnson countered with a more reliable radio bulletin: Easter holidays would be shortened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 14, 1947 | 4/14/1947 | See Source »

...making its current appeal, PBH can no longer ask for blood on war-time grounds of glamourized patriotism. These donations will not give on-the-spot aid to the entrenched soldier who has stopped an enemy bullet; but they may very well help out a roommate or a Cambridge schoolboy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Sweat, No Tears | 3/25/1947 | See Source »

...youth in the most despicable form of political exploitation, the real job is not to look under the bed but to offer a genuine progressive program in the democratic organizations. A witch-hunt indiscriminately pinning the Red label to independent-thinking individuals or magnifying the significance of the neurotic schoolboy Party Liner will only serve to arouse thousands of students across the country in defense of civil liberties. The informed in every stratum of society will surely resist obvious hysteria-shenanigans. Republican leaders are inviting near-unanimous condemnation from intelligent citizens if they throw thought-police methods in the face...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hysteria Shenanigans | 2/19/1947 | See Source »

...first glance the colors looked muddy or sometimes acidly off-register. Tamayo's figures lifted swollen hands and feet, like anthropomorphic cactus plants, and stared from flat, featureless heads. Behind them the fuzzy skies were scratched with schoolboy diagrams of the constellations. But for fans of Rufino Tamayo the distorted figures seemed perfectly adjusted to their painted world, and the star-spangled night skies (a new element in Tamayo's work) seemed to suggest the era of science...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Like a Mother | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

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