Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ambassador Maisky pulled a cord. The Union Jack and the Hammer & Sickle drew apart, revealed Lenin's likeness in white concrete against a red background, over a concrete block with a red marble top. A band blared. Hundreds of British throats sang, "Arise ye prisoners of starvation," and as many more of the Internationale's fine yeasty words as British heads could remember. Then came the surprise: when the band launched God Save the King, nobody sang...
...Last Time I Saw Paris is a loving, microscopic peep at the infusorial life of the block-long rue de la Huchette (just off the boul' Mich'), Author Paul's lost hedonistic heaven. Its hotels, bars, bordello and habitues exhale for him the garlicky breath of the real France−"the France one prefers to remember." Mostly they stagger between the tough tenderness of a Daumier cartoon and William Locke's The Beloved Vagabond. They also suggest a reason for France's fall...
...other hand, if such an overall rule were sanctioned Harvard Square florists would suffer a major blow, since they depend upon college trade more than any other block of customers. For many of the flower shops, Harvard business makes the difference between profit and loss. It seems only fair that no blanket ban should be imposed against their goods, for it is really up to an individual to decide whether he can buy or not. And as far as a luxury goes, it is no more than a few movies. The idea of buying defense stamps as an alternative...
...Boston readers which far exceed the reported 200,000, he boasted. It is undeniable that the appeasers are anxious that Coughlin's paper should be more widely read. It is equally undeniable that the distributors of this "pure American" magazine know they have something to hide when they block the view of its sale and kick photographers' cameras around the street...
...democracies, people tend to regard Fascists as an undifferentiated hostile mass. What this book reveals is that a Fascist party is not a concrete block. It is a human conglomerate, and a conglomerate crumbles. Agent in Italy reveals parts of this crumbling process and the human factors that are bringing it about. It also suggests that the process might be speeded up tremendously if a propaganda could be devised that offered to Fascists who are disillusioned with Fascism an alternative that was more than a vaguer version of totalitarian collectivism...