Word: concertized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Concert of Spheres. In the first glow, some optimists had read more into the Big Three declaration on liberated Europe than the Big Three actually said. Even among the Big Three, contests for power and spheres of influence were not finally abolished at Yalta. Yalta could be taken as an incomplete check on a race for spheres of influence...
...principle, the Big Three agreed to "concert" their interests and policies in such troubled countries as Greece and Poland. But the statement of principle included some significant limitations: 1) it holds good only "during the temporary period of instability"; 2) the big powers are bound to act together only when all three agree that the specific circumstances of each case justify their joint intervention...
Instead of permitting Bone to be a bewildered journalist, Hollywood has converted him into a moody pianist. In the embarrassingly incredible denouement, he ends his unhappy love life at the concert grand of the London Philharmonic as the building burns down around him and the flames lick his face...
...affairs of liberated countries (as Britain did in Greece) until the people of those countries can "create the democratic institutions of their own choice." The Big Three's words presumably applied to Russia's sphere (Bulgaria, Rumania, etc.): "They jointly declare their mutual agreement to concert, during the temporary period of instability in liberated Europe, the policies of their three Governments in assisting the peoples liberated from the domination of Nazi Germany, and the peoples of the former Axis satellite states of Europe, to solve by democratic means their pressing political and economic problems...
Joseph Wechsberg is a bland, dark, persistent man of 38 who started out in life to be a concert violinist. In pursuit of the bluebird of happiness, he has wandered far afield. In addition to fiddling on transatlantic ships and in European cabarets, he has been a professional claqueur in Vienna, a croupier in Nice, a politician's secretary in Prague, a war reporter-photographer in Persia, Ethiopia, China and the South Seas, a malt salesman in Venezuela, a soldier in his native Czechoslovakia, a lecturer on democracy in the U.S. He is currently with the U.S. Army...