Word: towards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hatreds, confusions and follies. In liberal political theory, education is what gives the common man the ever increasing wisdom to govern his society. Again & again, during the M.I.T. convocation, speakers called on education to run major errands for humanity; philosophers wanted it to teach the proper attitude toward mass production, educators wanted it to do a better job of education...
...very center of the picture is Detective Jim McLeod (excellently played by Ralph Bellamy). Because he had a sadistic father, he has become relentlessly uncharitable as well as rigidly just toward all evildoers. His only real tenderness is for his wife (Meg Mundy); and suddenly, in the midst of hounding an abortionist, he discovers that his wife went to the man before she was married. The psychological tangle that results is too much for both McLeod and Playwright Kingsley; the solution, like the whole setup, is far more lurid than convincing...
Opponents feared that some less benign censorship might replace the traditional office, now held by the 71-year-old Earl of Clarendon. But the House gave the bill a second-reading vote of 76 to 37 to push it along toward passage...
...People in their neat suburban houses were having queer dreams. Already one dead man was roaming the streets; he asked the way to London. Everyone sensed it: "Something's about!" Mrs. Sammile knew very well what was about. The path of time on Battle Hill had swerved sharply toward eternity...
Graves burst open. The unquiet dead, in frenzied legions, issued-screaming, backward through time toward life. And the living on Battle Hill became stricken with strange conditions of mind and body. "What is happening to us!" men cried. And one wiser than the rest replied: "One of the vials of the Apocalypse...