Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attempts to inject an Old World perspective into the hurly-burly of politics; but long before the end, the author drops his classic approach and blunts his touch on the smooth sides of several dozen random cliches. Like the mantelpiece sculpture of Socrates that turns up in the second act, the result is a hollow bust...
...Taft-Hartley Act will be discussed by John Collins and Ralph M. Goldstein before the Republican Open Forum tonight at 8 o'clock in the Winthrop Junior Common Room...
...unilateral "conditions of employment" in lieu of the contracts the publishers thought they were entitled to. They knew as well as the union that by posting the "conditions" the union would keep its closed shop, and that they might be liable to prosecution under the Taft-Hartley Act...
This week, the printers voted 2,330 to 61 to strike-the first big test of the Taft-Hartley Act. A few hours later the strike was on. The printers promised 24-hour-a-day picket lines around the six Chicago dailies. The publishers promised they would print anyway, by photoengraving. The papers began a frantic scramble to hire typists. The Sun hired 80 and set up day and night shifts. All the papers buckled down to give Chicago its daily news, in spite of the strike...
...hard to be explicit, but he did succeed in being unromantic. Wrote he: "This appetite [for composing] is not at all a fortuitous thing like inspiration, but as habitual and periodic ... as a natural need." Stravinsky prefers to call himself an inventor rather than a composer. "For the act of invention implies the necessity of a lucky find. ... A composer improvises aimlessly, the way an animal grubs about. . . . I suddenly stumble upon something unexpected. At the proper time, I put it to profitable use. ... An accident is perhaps the only thing that really inspires...