Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more about Americanism, chiefly through contrast with Europe's long, convulsive decline toward economic ruin and moral anarchy. In the 19th Century, writes Historian Joseph McSorley of the Paulist Fathers, "clashes between Church and State occurred in every important country except the United States of America." In the 20th Century, "a large proportion of the working classes turned their backs upon the Church...
...brightest young postwar net stars the U.S. has developed, Mouledous is a good bet to shine in future Davis Cup competition, unless Hollywood gets there first. Last week, a talent scout who saw Dick's picture in a New Orleans paper signed him up for 20th Century-Fox. Said the scout: "He's got a face that will appeal to women...
...probably the only person who has bothered to count how many words (6,984) there are in the role of Siegfried. This week the Met, which has also been keeping track, more roughly, of Lauritz Melchior, put on a show to mark his 20th anniversary at the Metropolitan. In a special Sunday night performance, Melchior sang the most ambitious program of his career-one act each from three Wagnerian operas. Four sopranos alternated in singing with him. The demonstration proved, to the satisfaction of all present, that Melchior is not only the most durable but also the greatest of Wagnerians...
...Weimar, taught such subjects as "construction," "texture," and photography (which included the technique of making "photograms" without benefit of camera). His book, The New Vision* is a definitive work on the Bauhaus which, besides experimenting with geometric art, operated on the theory that artists should learn how to use 20th-century machines and materials to design useful and beautiful things for mass production...
Colonel Effingham's Raid (20th Century-Fox), from the novel by Berry Fleming, tells the story of W. Seaborn Effingham (Charles Coburn), a garrulous, fabulous old Southern colonel who descends on a small city in Georgia and, before he has finished, practically turns the place upside down. The picture depends mostly upon the colonel's warlike antics and vocabulary, and upon some mild byplay involving William Eythe and Joan Bennett as newspaper reporters. The local color possibilities were enormous, but the producer and director of this picture evidently didn't think them worth the trouble. Most...