Word: statement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There is a great deal of obscurity in modern writing which could be cleared up if writers could be forced (only by criticism) to develop a skill in making positive statement . . . whether in verse or in prose. Statement may make art great and ought not to be subject to fashion...
...like to win a $9,300 house ... a $2,000 Alaska seal fur coat, a ... piano, an ... automobile? . . . Listen to the details of the New York City Cancer Committee's amazing radio jackpot contest! All you have to do is to complete in 25 words or less the statement 'I give to conquer cancer because . . .' and send it in with a contribution of at least 25?." Chief designer of the new technique in cancer fund-raising is Campaign Chairman Elmer H. Bobst, a suavely youthful 63, who is also vice chairman of the American Cancer Society...
Final decision on the University's World War II Memorial will not come before October, when full architectural advice has received consideration, Henry C. Clark '11, Secretary to the joint Associated Harvard Clubs-Alumni Association Committee charged with the choice, said yesterday. His statement accompanied release of a formal interim report of the Committee's progress by chairman Leverett Saltonstall...
...ourtain falls on a stage covered with assorted corpses, an old man--one of the survivors--says "I didn't mean no harm," a statement which can be applied to Irwin Shaw and Peter Viertel, to the management of the Harvard Dramatic Club, and to almost everybody production. Shaw and Viertel, who wrote "The Survivors," far from meaning harm, appear to have attempted to creste an allegory for our times, a dramatization of the concept that unreasonable hatred and stupidity make nations, as well as men, wipe each other out of existence. But the play itself adds up to little...
...about the atom bomb. Said Colonel James P. Cooney of the Army Medical Corps : "If a bomb were dropped on one of our cities tomorrow, mass hysteria would probably cause the unnecessary loss of many lives." In soothing vein, the Surgeon General's office this week issued a statement with a cheery title: "Army Doctors Say Hysteria Need Not Follow Atom-Bomb Explosion." Some of its reassuring points...