Word: sums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dead soldier's mother; Ulysses' & friends' raid on a forbidden apricot tree; the pursuit of Tom Spangler by a rich young pretty (Marsha Hunt); Bess and her girl friend picking up three lonely soldiers; Marcus playing hymns on his concertina in a troop train. The sum total of these screen adventures never quite attains the soaring enthusiasm of Saroyan's novel, and some of the preaching is hard to take. Yet at its best The Human Comedy is immensely moving. Even its preaching sometimes achieves an eloquence that gives the picture a psychological fifth dimension...
...paint, two-way private radio, furniture derived from air, water and coal, shoe soles of impregnated carpeting, fluorescent lighting, packaged houses, television, autogiros, decentralized cities, lightweight automobiles and locomotives, air express, new chemicals, new medical discoveries so revolutionary that they offered a saving of human life greater than the sum of human life lost...
...news in Turkish newspapers has skyrocketed; the Anatolian News Agency in Istanbul has more than doubled its news take. Africa was very backward about U.S. news: four papers in the Union of South Africa took the United Press service; Britain's Reuters went to Cairo. That was the sum total of U.S. news going to the Dark Continent. OWI now sends news, and lots of it, to Algiers, Casablanca, Accra, Brazzaville, Leopoldville, Johannesburg, Asmara and Cairo. The news differs in treatment: that for Sweden is very "sophisticated," that for Africa "primitive." In India news about the U.S. has increased...
Planning well ahead for next year, Maritime Commissioner Admiral Emory S. Land last week explained to the House Appropriations Committee the details of his $5 billion budget to finance the streamlined 1944 shipbuilding program. For this sum Shipbuilder Land promised 2,161 new and faster ships...
...bible's sections-T. S. Eliot's poems, for instance-human guilt appears as a world poison emanating from mankind's sins against God. Other modernist poets leave God, for all practical purposes, out of the picture. Human guilt, in their books, is simply the poisonous sum of people's transgressions against other people and against themselves. But whether the modernist poets speak as religionists or as non-religionists, they all seem to be trying to say that the world is a guilty world. Not a naughty world, or a bad world, but a guilty...