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...Upsets. Among men who follow football, Notre Dame had been a 13-point choice. But this season even the experts are used to surprises. From hardheaded prognosticators who swear by their charts to stouthearted alumni who swear at their coaches, the second-guessers have seldom been so wrong. Champions have fallen before underrated upstarts; last season's heroes are this season's also-rans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Mid-Season | 11/8/1954 | See Source »

Fragile Fox bangs through three acts, tossing at the audience a large variety of theatrical explosives. Blood is shed, broken bones are set, orders are defied, prisoners are shot, characters swear and curse, reel forward and roll backward. The characters themselves range from the comic to the psychopathic, the believable to the incredible; the incidents sometimes recall the war, rather oftener recall other war plays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Oct. 25, 1954 | 10/25/1954 | See Source »

...amusing thing is that the new breaches of taste aren't even very daring. Much like little boys who have found that the use of "swear words" marks one as quite a sport, movies of no more than routine shoddiness now feature the word "hell" in their titles. The Johnson office, apparently chastened by legal fiat and public demand, puts up with this back-fence marquee scribbling and would presumably make allowances for some spicy content in the plots. But the Legion of Decency, which isn't for one moment fooled by all this talk of liberal standards and progressively...

Author: By Robert J. Schoenberg, | Title: Give'Em Hell | 10/2/1954 | See Source »

Actually, a loyalty certificate, even for officer candidates, is largely waste motion. All personnel in the armed services swear to uphold the Constitution against all enemies "foreign and domestic." Furthermore they take this oath without "mental reservation," and unlike the certificate's rather muddy legal status, the formal oath is quite binding...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Purity Check | 10/1/1954 | See Source »

...will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Georgia, and swear that I am not a member of the Communist party and that I have no sympathy for the doctrines of Communism and will not lend my aid, my support, my advice, my counsel nor my influence to the Communist party or to the teaching of Communism...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Georgia Subversives Law Makes All State Teachers Show Loyalty | 9/29/1954 | See Source »

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