Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brilliant Parades . . ." Any briefing on the state of the world in the spring of '48 must start with the way the vast battle between Communism and democracy is going. There could be no doubt that Communism had suffered setbacks. It had been stopped in Western Europe when it failed to wreck France's economy and lost the Italian elections. It had been slowed down, at least, in Greece, where the Red guerrillas had not scored a major success all winter. It had been, forced to watch while the Marshall Plan became reality...
News reached the U.S. last week of a speech which may well be a clue to Communism's mood. German Communist Boss Wiihelm Pieck recently told 200 "Socia11st Unity" Party workers: "We are losing one position after another to the reactionaries. We put on brilliant parades, but the election results are the opposite. We have examples of opportunist backsliding and degeneracy in our party. [Many Communists] can cite Lenin, Marx and Engels, but they cannot cope with practical politics ... A belief has awakened in the masses that ... we are on the downward path...
...Allied Powers) has 45 teams traveling through the countryside, doing the occupation's spadework, checking on its effectiveness and on Japanese compliance. But MacArthur himself does not travel. In nearly three years of occupation he has not missed a day, including Sundays, at his desk. Douglas MacArthur, brilliant soldier and administrator, great showman, benevolent dictator, steadfast egoist, is SCAP-although the initials as usually employed refer to the whole apparatus of the occupation...
Berg died at 50, in 1935. Besides Wozzeck, he left a nearly finished second opera, a brilliant violin concerto and a handful of other pieces. Last week, a Manhattan audience-heard the first U.S. performance in years of his Chamber
...Woman In White (Warner), Wilkie Collins' mid-Victorian melodrama, has enough plot for a dozen ordinary movies-and a lot too much for one, unless that one is done brilliantly. This production is sound, rather than brilliant. Chunk by chunk it is patiently, intricately wrought and highly polished; but the chunks have to be shoved around like so many massive pieces of Victorian furniture. Those who made the film have taken a pretty good, but no longer very believable book a great deal too seriously. Treated with less respect, it might have been turned into a lively, believable movie...