Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trial turned into nothing more than a legal test of MGM's morals clause. Judge Leon R. Yankwich, charged MGM, had made a cocktail-party observation that all of the accused should be rehired. Judge Yankwich denied it, refused to disqualify himself. In the trial he made it clear that, so far as he was concerned, Communism was not an issue in the case...
Over the Mountains. A priest, who was the only Japanese to see them after death, said that their faces were "serene, calm, clear"-a statement which those who have seen hanged men would regard as doubtful...
...fighting was sporadic and obscure, but the motive was clear. If the U.N. could not bring the Egyptians to the conference table with words, Israel would try it with guns. Said one Israeli spokesman: "If the Egyptians want peace, they can have it. If they want war, they will get it. It is up to them." The Egyptians, meanwhile, were demanding an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council and calling on all Arab states to resume hostilities against the Jews. King Abdullah of Transjordan, who has the only effective Arab fighting force in the area, stood...
Composer Dmitri Shostakovich was in Dutch again with his Russian masters. Earlier in the year he had been in the dialectic doghouse, then let out when Pravda praised his "clear, realistic and emotionally powerful music" for the movie Young Guard (TIME, Oct. 25). Now it looked as if Dmitri was back where he started: after thinking it over, the Union of Soviet Composers called a special audition to listen carefully for possible bourgeois discords in his Young Guard music...
...grey plains and squat, nubble-knuckled figures of his earlier years in favor of a tropically brilliant, anatomically believable world that blazes with sunshiny yellows and royal-purple shadows. But though he has changed the colors of his palette, he has not changed his political colors. The clear new light in Portinari's newest murals-including that of the Tooth-Puller-does more than please the eye; it makes Portinari, who says he paints "to teach my people what is wrong," an increasingly vivid teacher...