Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Undoubtedly, the election was a complex event, the product of enough variant factors to cloud any inherently clear meaning for the press. Most reputable middle-of-the-road journalists nevertheless agree that, while the Truman victory doesn't admit to pat analysis, the basic reportorial error, attributable to whatever primary cause, is quite uncomplicated in its implications. Correspondent James Reston wrote to his own New York Times the morning after that "we were wrong, not only on the election, but, what's worse, on the whole political direction of our time." Richard Lee Strout of the Christian Science Monitor...
...both curious and ominous. It implies that we are being attacked and that we must defend ourselves. The phrase "peace blitz" has even been used here and there recently; it emphasizes this implication. But just where the danger lies in such a "blitz" is peculiarly unclear. Nor is it clear how, in the name of peace, you can defend yourself against the "blitz...
...with the main characters, Charlie and his wife, it is difficult to know where you are. As the play progresses Charlie's speeches take on the appearance of a groping philosophy but just what it is is never clear. Perhaps that muddleness is what Odets intended. There certainly are people like Charlie, people who have done some reading, adopted some ideals and then become confused when they couldn't make them work. But most of the time Charlie sounds like he's crossed Winchell with Shakespeare with disastrous results. John Garfield makes a very good Charlie...
Porter knew no real struggle until he was 45, and at the peak of success. Then he undertook a gallant and successful fight to walk again, after a Long Island horseback-riding accident left him with compound fractures of both legs. Winning this fight took 31 operations (mostly to clear up a bone infection of his right leg), years of constant pain, and a tough-minded courage that surprised his friends and impressed his physician...
...generally constitute a basis of conflict, especially after the advent of children. Only a few instances of homes broken because of religious diversity were discovered through this study, but in numerous families the tension continued to be acute, even after twenty years of marriage." He adds: "It is abundantly clear that interfaith marriages have unfortunate results for organized religion...