Word: wars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second half of Bush's thesis is more acceptable. His belief that science in a democracy is necessarily more creative than that in a totalitarian state is pretty suspect--at the end of the war Nazi scientist were well ahead of the Allies in the development of aircraft, guided missiles, tanks, and submarines, among other things. But his does not mean that we must be unprepared...
...assistants should be retired immediately and at all costs, whether it means adjustment of the contract or not. You are not responsible for the coaching and its success. That responsibility rests with Mr. Valpey and his assistants. I have seen every Harvard-Yale game (with one exception during the war--1941) sine 1905. The Yale-Harvard game this year was the worst exhibition of football that I have ever seen by a Harvard team. The record of having lost all six of the "Ivy" football games speaks for itself...
...popular songs during the last war had some lines which went like this...
...Devil in the Flesh" is a story about a high school boy and a war bride in France in 1918 who do not find the words of the contemporary ditty to be the case at all. The young woman (Michelene Presle), married to a soldier she does not love, becomes deeply and passionately involved with an adolescent (Gerard Phillipe), and around their clandestine romance is spun the action of the finest French film this reviewer has seen...
...movie great. First, of course, its subject matter must be adequately rich, and "Devil in the Flesh" lives up brilliantly to this specification. The film is based on the autobiographical novel "Le Diable an Corps" by Raymond Radiguet. It shows unflinchingly the great residue of immorality which often accompanies war, and depicts the effect of a chaotic, perturbed world on human emotions...