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Continentals call this tendency "dirigisme" it is increasingly unpopular on the Continent. The French, Italians and even the sober Belgians consider the British taste for controlled austerity to be somewhat perverted-what might be called economic masochism, or love of suffering. The British look down their noses and reply that their controls are merely good housekeeping...
...impulses and to his notions; he does not bother to qualify, to mitigate, to water-down. Consequently he writes with a vigor which approaches what those of us with more refined sensibilities might call bombast, but which is preferable a hundred times to the cautious standards set for the sober-minded by the pale prose of the New York Times's editorial page. I belong to a small band of people who like to enjoy what they read. We distrust the doctrine that holds dullness to be a sign of wisdom; but even if this doctrine were true, we would...
...Commission cannot afford to remain silent on the ways and means of its policy. The Commission cannot dismiss these problems with a statement deploring indiscriminate smears. There is no question of the sincerity and sober principle of President Conant and his fellow Commissioners. But on this issue they now stand with men of little principle and no discernment, men who are attempting to stifle ideas and change our constitutional guarantees of civil liberties to suit their purposes. So long as President Conant and his colleagues refuse to discuss implementation, these men will be able to say: we have...
...Bacon. Seeing Acheson off at Washington's airport, the President was in high spirits in sharp contrast to his sober farewells to George Marshall. He joshed photographers, shook hands all around, posed with all comers. Standing next to Acheson, he saw Vice President Barkley- drive up, announced briskly: "Here's the Veep," and pumped his hand. At the top of the ladder, Acheson turned and waved cheerily. "Bring home the bacon," shouted John J. McCloy, the new American High Commissioner in Germany. "Bon voyage" shouted Alben Barkley. Harry Truman looked at him in mock amazement. "What...
...suspense begins to build up when Tommy (Bobby Driscoll), a tenement kid with a habit of telling tall tales, sees a murder. When he tells his sober, hardworking parents (Barbara Hale and Arthur Kennedy), they do not believe him; neither do the police. But the murderers (Paul Stewart and Ruth Roman) get wind of Tommy's knowledge and decide...