Word: threatfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dealing with neurotic faculty and alumni pressure. As Aiken faces these problems, he emerges able but overly sensitive and not at all confident of his ability to carry out a bold academic policy. About him, within Rowley College, Mr. Morrison sketches familiar characters--intense academicians, professors frightened by the threat of loyalty probes. These he draws well, all mature men and women. But the students in Rowley College seem somehow unreal...
Similarly, last week the Eisenhower Administration went forward with its psychological offensive against the Communist enemy of the Far East, letting enough news of U.S. military potentialities leak out to make its threat a real one. Latest warrior to park his POLICE car ostentatiously was Admiral Arthur W. Radford, commander in chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet. As soon as Radford landed in Washington (from headquarters in Pearl Harbor) last week, he was summoned to a White House conference with President Eisenhower. Radford came & went publicly, but gave not a hint of the reason for the visit. Nonetheless, the word...
Directed at a breakneck pace by Co-Author Curt Siodmak, The Magnetic Monster is crisply acted by Richard Carlson and King Donovan, as scientists combating the radioactive threat. But the picture's real stars are technological: Geiger counters, electronic microscopes, cybernetic machines. There are also learned references to isotopes, alpha particles, implosions. Clocks stop and metal objects go slithering around under the influence of the magnetic force. A race against time to kill off the element is accomplished by jet plane. The whole thing is up-to-the-minute and quasi-scientifically hair-raising. Best sequence: a flickering, high...
Conant met yesterday with the British and French High Commissioners. After further talks with West German leaders in Bonn, he plans to Tuesday to pay his first visit to Berlin. That city is now faced with the possible threat of another blockade. Next Friday he will meet with American military leaders at Heidelberg...
While the totalitarian threat emphasizes the worth of American political values, the contributors fear the demand for uncritical affirmation of American society and culture. Essential to creative activity is freedom to criticize without fear, the right to love one aspect of America and to loath another. Such criticism represents a more productive commitment to a society than unquestioning acceptance. For creative achievement, the lingering sense of intellectual alienation is a necessity...