Word: unum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pluribus Unum. No technical innovator, Author Cozzens demonstrates his theme by the popular "Grand Hotel" method of assembling hordes of people, all with singular points of view, in one place-a huge World War II airbase. in Florida. Some of them are elderly, Regular Army officers to whom the mechanics of war are as vital as the winning of it. Some are much too bogged down in personal miseries and prejudices to recognize the overriding claims of victory: others are far too intent on victory to show any tolerance for human weaknesses. In fact, as Author Cozzens shows, the marvel...
...knows that it can discount a good deal of the characteristically jeering American attitude toward the elected representatives of the American people. For the U.S. Congress knows-as the American people know-that, in spite of sectional differences, in spite of politics and politicians and party lines, E Pluribus Unum is more than a coin-worn phrase...
...some snapshots of Harvard? Well, BILL PAGE and ALBERT J. Marsh took some dandies the day of the graduation ceremonies and BILL says he got a swell action picture of me...yes, sound asleep while a Latin Speech was being delivered...all I know about that is "E PLURIBUS UNUM"...and 'I'm not sure whether it was he or Caesar that got killed in the second...
...change in location and season made little difference in the reception of ancient class parts. The Ivy Oration, by Joseph C. Scott, was greeted with applause and laughter from the "Classmatibus hic haec hoc anno domini c pluribus unum veritas ad infinitum hocus pocus salutem" at the beginning, to the imitation of a History I professor who declared at the end, that "the chaos to which we are now subjected is like the screechings and scratching of a great orchestra, which is in reality but tuning up to play a great triumphal march-the Overture in Africa-and the Finale...
...highly ludicrous comedy gliding to the syncopated mastery of an auburn-haired young woman named Le Verne. By way of encouragement to the patriotic spirit of the times, the production closes with a copper-tinted ballet entitled What's On The Penny, reminding the audience that "E Pluribus Unum . . . isn't on the peso, isn't on the lira, isn't on the franc...