Word: textbooks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Director Lloyd, who performed a similar service for the British with his 1933 Oscar winner, Cavalcade, knows how to dish out history without resorting to textbook technique. He likes to take a few typical characters of the period, run them through the normal complications of normal people, silhouette them against a background of great dates, deeds, land marks. Thus he fashioned The Howards into a deft exposition of the forces which combined to create...
When a friendly and unthreatened British Fleet policed the Atlantic and made the Monroe Doctrine a working document, defense of the Panama Canal was a textbook subject. The only possible attack was from Japan in the Pacific, and Japan's No. 3 world Navy had to operate from too far away. Its long supply lines could be cut at will, even by an inferior Navy, from the Philippines, Hawaii, Alaska and, if the Japanese got past the great ocean fortress of Hawaii, by flanking attacks from the U. S. Pacific Coast...
...Liberator of His Fatherland" (because he was born in what became the Polish Corridor). His crossing of the Brahe in the Corridor caused the destruction of three Polish divisions and a cavalry brigade east of that river, but the Allies estimated him chiefly from his textbook Look Out, Tanks! (1939), which summarized his basic tactical principle with superb triteness: "It is important to penetrate swiftly and deeply into enemy positions with a great number of tanks...
Donald Ferguson, 57, has been at Minnesota 27 years, is program annotator for the Minneapolis Symphony, author of a widely used textbook, A History of Musi cal Thought. On the podium he conducts with fury, grunting and grimacing while his hair seems to stand on end. Once in a gymnastic passage his baton flew out of his grasp. Once in a difficult passage, Professor Ferguson grew so pleased that he entirely forgot to lead. Neither time did the chorus get out of the groove...
...discontented." Attacking income taxation, an instructor once read an item complaining that state and federal taxes consumed most of the $200,000 bonus given to A.T. & T. president Gifford. At another meeting of the class, sentences were quoted from a Washington newspaper which condemned Harold Rugg's social-science textbook series for "breeding a generation of future reds and pinks in our public elementary schools." Other clippings collected by the instructor for the student's edification include attacks on nationwide labor organizations...