Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Half Citizens. The U.S. Communist Party, born in 1919, was a rachitic child dropped on the U.S. doorstep by the Russian Revolution. The U.S., historically crowded with rebels and reformers-vegetarians, Fletcherizers, yogi followers and deep-breathers; Know-Nothings, Single-Taxers, Abolitionists and seekers after Utopias; Tom Paines, John Browns, W. J. Bryans and Gene Debses-always had room for one more heresy, even a foundling of communism...
Even many friendly Viennese were puzzled. Some sought deep significance in the fey comedy; one critic likened Harvey to Hamlet. Moreover, Vienna, which had been proud godmother to Freudian psychiatry, barely recognized that delicate science in its U.S. version. Certainly the alienist in Harvey, who yearns for a maiden and a keg of beer under a shady maple tree, scarcely seemed in the great Viennese tradition of soul-searchers...
...staff calmed down. Crowell-Col-lier's top management was prepared to string along with Ruppel: in one year, Collier's advertising linage had dropped 15%, and Crowell-Collier's profits had plummeted from $4,866,000 to $2,419,-ooo. For these deep-seated troubles, a drastic cure was needed. Louis Ruppel was about the most drastic remedy to be found anywhere...
Furtwängler hit harder: "Each great work of tonal music radiates deep, unshakable peace, like the majesty of God. This peace is lacking in atonal music [which] has grown restless. There is a lot of intellect and combination, there is plenty of intelligence, but ängler, listening to atonal music is like "walking through a dense forest; strange flowers are lining the path; you don't know whence you come and you don't know whither...
...different from those of ordinary men . . . gaunt. . . haggard . . . bluish . . . bright, gleaming eyes and exceptional compression of the lips; withal a perfect demeanour"; the dispossessed in the bombed-out ruins of Peckham, whose cheerful fortitude brought tears to the Prime Minister's eyes. The web's perimeter, the deep-indented, 2,000-mile British coastline, is rounded off by the unsleeping, patrolling navy, evoking from old Sea Scholar Churchill the blissful, almost dreamy remark: "Seapower, when properly understood, is a wonderful thing...