Word: texts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Amory, a former CRIMSON president, spends eleven pages of text and pictures describing life and atmosphere about the Square. He reaches the conclusion that local buildings which can be safely overlooked are "Memorial Hall, a Victorian-Gothic monstrosity built to commemorate Civil War dead, and the Lampoon Building, built for no reason...
...Notice. In Jefferson City, Mo., Prison Trusty M. T. McDonald finished off his weekly sermon at the penitentiary with the text: "I go to prepare a place for you . . . that where I am, there ye may be also," a few hours later escaped...
...opening wedge in a campaign of standardization all along the line that will gradually stiffen U. S. education into one unshakable pattern. They pass around the story of the French Minister of Education who proudly declared that at any given moment he could tell what page of what text-book each child in the country was reading. American education needs to be supported by national funds, these educators admit, but diversity and the chance to experiment are too important to lose for the sake of sheer productivity...
...devotion to Stalin and the motherland. What more could a composer do? A good deal more, apparently, if he was to satisfy the music-loving Central Committee. Said Culture and Life: Prokofiev's music for the Tale of a Real Person was "in screaming contradiction with the text . . . hard on the ear and lacking in melody for singing . . . really insulting for a Soviet audience...
That Wonderful Urge (20th Century-Fox) is a stale, wearisome slapstick sermon on the text "You, Too, Can Be Happy, Though Rich." The example is a tabloid reporter (Tyrone Power) who writes scurrilous stories about a chain-store heiress (Gene Tierney). Disguised as a playboy-author, he pursues her to Sun Valley, and she develops an odd urge to share more of her time-and maybe her millions-with him. To most reporters, this might seem like very sweet vengeance, if you can get it; to Reporter Power, the whole idea is repugnant...