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Moscow, she observed, "isn't as sophisticated a city as, say, Leningrad, and I noticed that people wouldn't even applaud for a work by Bach." According to Pianist Starr, the jury distinguished "three distinct 'schools' of piano playing: American, French and Russian. And the thing that seemed to set the Americans apart was what they called 'overemotionalism...
...welcome TIME'S certification of our respectability. We continue to reject the "realism" of security through preparation for war and in our respectable way applaud the President's efforts at Geneva to break out of the grisly arms race...
Here, and at the end of his talk, Marshall cut off the applause--lowered the impact by moving quickly to his next point. As the audience rose to applaud the end of his address, the Secretary took off his glasses, leaned forward on the lectern, and reached into his pocket for some scribbled supplementary remarks. Then he reiterated his earlier point, "the vast importance that our people reach some general understanding of what the complications really are, rather than react from a passion or prejudice or an emotion of the moment." It was this gesture that led many members...
Businessmen, still sharing the general euphoria over the "industrial statesmanship" of the steel contract, were startled by U.S. Steel's unexpected price increase. Their initial instinct was to applaud Roger Blough's dramatic affirmation of the right of a businessman in a democratic, free-enterprise society to set his own prices. But as the week went on, and Blough himself made clear that he had no such defiant design in mind, and had simply underestimated the probable Administration and public reaction, another current of opinion set in. Stupidly handled, even if economically justified, was now the view...
...started promisingly, but reporters remained distant, unfriendly, aloof. To hear them tell it, Nixon was soon slipping badly. Though all over California Nixon was getting good crowds, flocking to shake hands with him and applaud the distinguished native son, the latest California poll seemed to bear out the reporters' suspicions. The new Mervin Field poll shows Democrat Pat Brown for the first time ahead, 45% to 42%, with 13% undecided (in the last count, in February, Nixon...