Word: alienable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soviet Art, official organ of the Soviet Arts Committee, last week published an exposé of conditions under the big top. "Only by fully unmasking ... in the arenas of Soviet circuses alien bourgeois tendencies can Soviet circus art achieve a new renaissance and become a genuine expression of the strength of our great fatherland," the article said. Circus managers were attacked for "trying to replace the healthy Soviet circus, with its ideology, optimism and purposefulness, with empty, formalistic imitations...
Story No. i (The Facts of Life) is a pleasant, inconsequential gag and No. 2 (The Alien Corn) a piece of out & out bathos. But script No. 3 is a solid bite of meatiest Maugham. The Kite is the story of Herbert Sunbury (George Cole), a simple-minded city lad with a possessive mom (Hermione Baddeley) and a small boy's passion for flying kites on the local commons. But Herbert's young bride wants him with no kite strings-nor silver cords-attached. When he refuses to cut loose, she kicks him out and plays...
...implies that romance was an easy road to the U.S. for foreign spouses [but] neglects to mention the dilemma of Korean wives of American personnel. The Korean national, although his nation is recognized by the U.S., is not eligible to reside in the U.S. as a permanent alien resident, nor dare he hope to achieve American citizenship, because the Korean is an Oriental and is subject to the Oriental Exclusion...
...been organized for the purpose of attacking the Roman Catholic Church or any other. It has been organized to maintain religious liberty . . . We are convinced that there are literally millions of American Roman Catholics who are gravely concerned by policies of the hierarchy to establish here a culture alien to the traditions of a free people...
...storm that blew up lover his political beliefs has subsided. Only a few hours before he was scheduled to give a piano concert in New York Monday night, the Justice Department decided to held him for a hearing, apparently to find out whether he was "an undesirable alien." Gieseking chose to leave the country. His departure has been cheered by the various groups that picketed Carnegie Hall before the scheduled concert, charging that the German artist was a Nazi...