Word: concerned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tito Smells Bad. But there is another side to Khrushchev's benevolence and melting concern for peace and prosperity. Tossing away a party-prepared oration at a workers meeting in Czechoslovakia last week, Khrushchev gave vent to some tough talk about Tito. "Now certain clever boys begin criticizing us. They say you have done this badly and that stupidly. Listen, dears, where were you when we started the Revolution?" Nikita made clear that he was talking of Tito by telling Yugoslav journalists present not to put down what he had to say, that he would soon tell Tito...
Then Parpalaid, disillusioned with city life, returns only to find his favorite hangout, the village hotel, now turned into a bustling hospital. Parpalaid begs Knock to reveal his secret, which is what the charlatan terms the "science of medicine." Romains is deadly serious in his concern with modern man's susceptibility to pseudo-scientific worship, and Knock's final manipulations of Parpalaid result in an ironic and completely unsentimental ending...
...reading of Huston's remarks pointed up Strasberg's concern over "the lack of a trained audience." And it was particularly timely in view of Earle Hyman's current recreation of the same role at the Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Connecticut (which I discussed at some length in these pages two weeks...
...Concern for Leftists. The court virtually invited journalistic fulminations with its Watkins-case decision, curbing the investigatory powers of Congress, and its Smith Act ruling that it is not illegal to advocate overthrow of the U.S. Government as "an abstract principle divorced from any effort to instigate action to that end." Some of the loudest outcries came from newspapers that had championed McCarthy; they ranged from the Omaha World-Herald's gibe that it is now "all right to teach that the White House should be blown up," to the Cleveland Plain Dealer's invitation: "Well, comrades...
...wickedly witty portrait of an atheistic, humanist household headed by a zealot father who devoutly believes that religion is "nothing but a means of maintaining injustice, corruption and poverty," and a euphoric mother who dismisses all that sort of thing as "Bloomsbury talk." But the narrator's main concern is love, and the way in which it has come to six women of her acquaintance. The backgrounds range from bomb-flattened Warsaw to fat and peaceful Stockholm, from English country houses to the ski slopes of Austria's Vorarlberg. The people are nearly as cosmopolitan as Author Zilliacus...