Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people among the dumfounded public were ready to deny this obvious fact. But, knowing Mr. Lewis, they wanted to know a couple of facts about the accouplement before they started applause. For years the animosity of Mr. Lewis and Mr. Green was the chief stumbling block to a reunion of labor. According to one published plan, the new president of accoupled labor would be A.F. of L.'s Secretary-Treasurer George Meany; Mr. Green would be turned out to pasture on a $20,000-a-year pension; Machiavellian Mr. Lewis would get a vice-presidency; Mr. Murray, to whom...
...saved. In most colleges definite conflicts will appear between "standards" and defense. There can be no question as to the choice. The colleges, certainly, must be the watchdogs of cultural values, and no needless sacrifices should be made. But on the other hand the scholar cannot in any way block an all-out war effort...
...precautions for his safety. You can hear the bomb, according to Mrs. DeRoth, and there is nothing to do but throw yourself on the ground. "It may be difficult at first to hurl yourself into mud or dirt, but a soiled coat is certainly preferable to being blown a block away by the blast...
...musical. It had to let Andy Rooney be boys-must-be-boyish and let Judy Garland sing. So Rooney, having failed to crash the New York theatrical world, and having met Judy in the process, decides to combine all the unheeded young talent in the city, get a city block from somewhere, give a tremendous musical, and gain fame, fortune, and Judy at the same time. We really couldn't say how it ends. We left in the middle of the city block scene, while Judy was singing a rousing spine-tingler that went, "Keep your chin up, Tommy Atkins...
Sinclair's history of National Socialism sometimes sounds like a newspaper written by a kindhearted, turn-of-the-century U.S. Socialist (which Sinclair is). But it works in keen little vignettes-of a devoted block-leader, of a Nazi composer, of a leftish Nazi-and portraits of Hitler, of Goring, of Goebbels (with all of whom Sinclair's ubiquitous hero talks and negotiates). These portraits fall short of Tolstoy's Napoleon by as far as the whole work falls short of the sublime Homeric purity of War and Peace; yet they are honest, moving...