Word: concerns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inescapable conclusion would be that cinema scores must be written with almost as much logic, creative power, and structural concern as a symphony or tone-poem. Unless the hundreds of musical notes used in a movie have some organic connection with each other, besides that of being in the same picture, unless they form a coherent unity by themselves, they will be no better on the screen than they would playd to audiences in the concert hall. Our Town was the revelation of a new approach, a significant step in the growth of American music...
...situation that faced Richelieu as France's leading statesman might well have made him sicker. It looks contemporary to readers in 1940. "The inner structure of the country was still far from stable. The idea of national unity . . . was at times the concern of the burghers merely and the townsfolk, who formed the main bulwark of the kingdom; the great feudal nobles . . . played at high treason. ... As for the Protestants, they were a still greater danger, a State within the State." Menacing Spain had its fifth columns among Catholics and Huguenots. The Huguenots conspired with the Protestant Germans...
...world's most successful tattler, McKelway does more than tattle. His aching concern is the "Legacy of an Ex-Hoofer"-the effect of Winchellism on the standards of the press. When Winchell began gossiping in 1924 for the late scatological tabloid Evening Graphic, no U. S. paper hawked rumors about the marital relations of public figures until they turned up in divorce courts. For 16 years gossip columny spread until even the staid New York Times whispered that it heard from friends of a son of the President that he was going to be divorced. "The Graphic...
...Author McKelway's concern for newspaper ethics Winchell sneers: "Oh stop! You talk like a high-school student of journalism...
...inane marionette show, or the pathetic account of the little Jewish lawyer who attempts to flee the Third Reich and gets caught. There is Wolfe's vast, ever-welling pity for all lowly, downcast little people who mainly populate the earth, his deep, constantly iterated, constantly irritated concern for his integrity as man and artist. Above all, there is Thomas Wolfe's cosmic sense of Thomas Wolfe, motelike but meaningful against immensity...