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Another effective technique in military schools is to go from the concrete to the abstract, rather than putting theory ahead of practice, as most civilian schools do. Today's radio technician, for example, learns to spot a malfunction before he learns Ohm's law. Trainees are also allowed to progress at their own pace, often working alone with programmed textbooks. Where classroom teaching is used, service schools keep the student-teacher ratio low, take full advantage of military discipline and of the sense of immediacy that training for war gives...
Still, does lack of suspense matter? Hitchcock is more than a suspense-machine and a technician; his films reflect the work of a mature artist and contain great thematic depth and consistency. Using his familiar hero, the ordinary man plunged unexpectedly into a nightmarish world of melodrama, Hitchcock will allow the nightmare to bring about changes in his heroes: thematically, North by Northwest is about the redemption of a useless individual, The Man Who Knew Too Much about the emergence of a husband's desire to dominate his wife...
...Quiet, please," announced the assistant director in discreet, nicely modulated tones. Griped a nearby veteran American technician: "If we were in Hollywood, he'd be saying 'Shaddup!' " But it was not a Hollywood sound stage they were on last week. It was a picturesque, narrow street in the ancient Wiltshire village of Castle Combe, which was also cluttered with sound trucks, mobile generators, scriptmen, Actor Anthony Newley, giant arc lamps that almost topped the moss-grown roofs of the cottages, and a herd of wondering, chattering villagers pressed against the chicken-wire fence, hastily constructed to keep...
...cannot pander to vile appetites or propensities"), but just two miles across the causeway is Somers Point-and it has 18 bars. After sunning all day at Ocean City and partying all night at Somers Point, the conclusion is frequently sexual. Says Ann Williams, a 23-year-old medical technician: "The kids think nothing of living together...
...Nazi execution squads shooting down rows of naked men, women and children, who fell writhing into trenches that they themselves had dug; here were literally thousands of corpses being bulldozed into mass graves. Suddenly, in the darkened room, Prosecutor Hausner heard Eichmann stir. Hausner wondered if the ice-cold technician of the final solution was objecting to the evidence in the film-or was he showing remorse at last...