Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that the Japanese have lost their awe of the Emperor, retain only respect and curiosity. He talked with Hirohito, found him "intelligent, quick and agreeable," but very much of a "man who had been managed. Hirohito always seemed to be looking for someone to give him a cue. To break the ice I brought candy for his kids. He got real folksy and asked me about my kids at home...
...this comes an illegitimate child, who grows up and stages her own unhappy revolt against Spinster Rose. Her fate is her mother's: she is left with a child by a country dolt. This is proof, says one character, that "it is often more dangerous to break a convention than...
...warmth. The genial touch of Elliott Paul (see BOOKS) is often clear in the script; the Negro musicians-notably Armstrong, Singer Billie Holiday, Trombonist Kid Ory and Guitarist Bud Scott-act and play their music with freedom and pleasure. At the end, regrettably, jazz becomes "respectable"-probably the worst break it could...
Overheard. Trained in France and Italy, Edis made her debut in Vichy in Manon in 1937, came home to the U.S. when the war began. She sang in opera in the U.S. and Latin America, was in Mexico City recovering from an operation when she got her first break. She was practicing her scales in her hotel room when a Coca-Cola representative, attending a Rotary Club meeting in a room below, heard her and signed her for a two-year radio program...
...guess I'm a disillusioned fellow traveler. I'm angry with our former great Allies. It's an accumulation of many things, but principally it's because of Russia's behavior in the United Nations. The Russians are determined to break up U.N. We could take a lot of slaps at our own foreign policy, and we've lost a lot of our moral right to criticize. We're all wrong, but Russia is wronger...