Word: briefing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sometimes sordid aspects of life. His brush was strong, his eye was piercing, and in all of his work a sharp feeling of cynicism, often bordering on harshness, can be detected. I was surprised, though perhaps I should not have been, to find that he had produced such a brief master-piece of whimsicality as the "Femme-Couchee," one of the lithographs included in this otherwise sophisticated series...
...questioned. No fifth column is mentioned. The charges against them are appeasement, playing politics with national defense, negligence in face of danger, blundering, in eptitude, plain stupidity. Most crushing part of the indictment is the simple quota tions in Chapter I from survivors of the Battle of Flanders - brief, unemotional statements about the enemy's superiority in equipment, casual comments that it is "the story of an Army doomed before they took the field." The rest of the book is a true bill against the politicians who doomed these soldiers...
...chairmen of the Military Training Committee, the Committee on Correspondence, and the Forum Committee each made brief statements about the functions of their departments, urging members to cooperate in spreading student defense work...
...pleasant, but her change of heart just as the mortgage is going to be foreclosed--yes, there is a mortgage--seems slightly less than sincere. The various younger females, the daughter of the Fullers and her friends, were disappointingly undecorative save for one uncommunicative siren, Toni Sorel, whose brief appearances make Ann Sheridan's claim to the title of Oomph Queen patently absurd...
...emotional stresses, once aroused in this fashion, tend to create a social compulsion not unlike state edict in its effect, while a brief look-see at the "God Bless America" excesses should convince anyone of the impossibility of maintaining this type of emotional patriotism within non-ridiculous bounds. (At one show currently on Broadway a magician pulls 20 Starred-and-Striped chorus girls out of a hat; they're honeys, but would Professor Elliott approve...