Word: conductive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gainsay them. . . . [But] there are many features of this process which do not sit lightly on a civilized conscience. . . . Certainly, if we had been defeated ... we should have had some difficulty in justifying Hiroshima. . . . There needs to be a consistency between the law of the judges and the conduct of the powers [behind the judge?]. There exists a disparity which the world must notice. . . . The Nűrnberg judgment will look well or ill in history according to the future behavior of the four nations responsible for it. . . . If they behave as nations have invariably behaved till now, it will...
...There may be some who will say that Mr. Truman cannot do this without confessing that he is less able to cope with the press than was President Roosevelt. But in fact he is less able. . . . [Besides] Roosevelt's conduct of press conferences became, as time went on, more a form of personal recreation than a means of public education. . . . More and more they degenerated into persiflage by means of which the President, who was nearly always the victor, would win for himself a few more days of freedom from the inquisitiveness of the press...
Special programs for the week have been announced by the Crimson Network. On the classical side, Symphonia will present a first broadcast Boston performance tonight of Purcell's "Dide and Aeneas"; while the jazzmen will conduct a technical battle tonight and Friday, with an exponent of four-boat style holding this evening and a two-beat man on Friday...
...ideological conviction." It was probably, conceded the young composer's critic charitably, the fault of undue influence by expatriate Russian Composer Stravinsky, "an artist without a fatherland or deep ethical principles." But jilted Genius Shostakovich, hard at work on an opera crammed with ideology, declined an offer to conduct in Boston...
...twenty-five colored citizens charged with participation in "racial disorders" last February. It was a triumph for social justice, and a heartening indication of reconstruction by Southerners themselves. But in the mechanics of courtroom procedure, in the attitudes of both participant and spectator, and in the very conduct of the case, the incident revealed once again the weakness of jurisprudence below the Mason-Dixon: that before the bar two loyalties exist--one to justice, and another, even stronger, to an almost feudal social system...