Word: stevensons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then the world of Miss Weekes, Mr. Stevenson and 58 English schoolboys seemed to explode. The headmaster flung himself on top of one of his pupils to protect him as bricks and timber crashed...
...heard the roar, of course, and the rat-a-tat of its machine guns. The Jerry must be raking the streets, she decided, and. as quickly as she could, she herded her class into a place which she considered comparatively safe near a hallway. In another classroom Headmaster Stevenson said briskly: "Under the desks, boys...
Ginger Rogers as Susan (Susu) Applegate takes to pigtails in order to buy a half-fare ticket to Stevenson, Iowa. She wants to escape Manhattan mashers like Robert Benchley. Unsuspecting Major Philip Kirby (Ray Milland) protects her from highly suspicious trainmen, takes her to spend a howling few days at the Wallace Military Institute. There are love complications with the Major's financée Pamela (Rita Johnson), who wants to keep him out of active service, and with her sister Lucy (Diana Lynn), a cold-eved little biologist, who wants to get him in. Ginger helps Lucy...
...Mama" v. "Papa." In spite of such strict psychiatric examinations, there are still about 300 more or less serious breakdowns in Army camps every week. According to a report by Dr. George Salvadore Stevenson, head of the National Committee for Mental Hygiene, there are three times as many mental breakdowns among enlisted men and the National Guard (who did not get psychiatric examinations before they were accepted) as there are among carefully screened draftees. Most of these men are victims of the most prevalent mental disorder in the U.S.-dementia praecox, a disease characterized by withdrawal from reality...
None has caught it so understandingly as the 20 pages of Robert Louis Stevenson's essay on Yoshida-Torajiro, Japan's mid-19th Century fanatic on westernization, who used to keep awake for his midnight studies by putting mosquitoes up his sleeve. No recent book has probed the Japanese mind so deeply as the 20 pages of The Japanese Smile by Lafcadio Hearn, who became a Japanese subject, spent the rest of his life repudiating western civilization. Jujitsu. Yet "that mind," says Expert Kiralfy, "is our real enemy. Without it Emperor Hirohito's armies are just...