Word: dimness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marriage Brokers. Through the political fog that hangs over Germany the dim outlines of a political ghost can be seen-the ghost of a dark, homely man named Karl Radek. It was Radek, Soviet Russian agent in Germany after World War I, who pointed out that nationalism could become the vehicle of Communism in a synthesis which he called "national Bolshevism." It was Radek who explained to the Comintern executive committee that the nationalism of the German "masses" did not necessarily prevent them from turning to Communism. A great many forces in West Germany are conspiring to bring the ghost...
Barty Fingal, a stringy bit of town scum, and his pal Pelancey, a handsome but dim-witted giant, find a compromising letter in a jacket sent to Pelancey's dry-cleaning shop. They decide to blackmail the man who wrote it, and their scheme is so successful that the poor fellow commits suicide...
...copies. Three of them were book-club choices (H.M. Pulham, Esquire and So Little Time, Book-of-the-Month; B.F.'s Daughter, Literary Guild) ; three of them made box-office movies. Whatever the critics may say about Point of No Return (Marquand says, "I take a dim view of all serious critics-I don't know any who've had a kind word to say for me, ever since I was a little boy"), it is a sure bet that the U.S.'s big Marquand audience will...
Murch's paintings, on view in a Manhattan gallery last week, had all the dim, cold calm of false dawn. They were done with dead-eye accuracy, in greenish gobs of shadow laced with silvery threads and buttons of light. He had put the paint on thickly, Murch explained, because "that helps create a thing out of the painting itself." Among his table-top subjects were a dead bird, a dead fish poised on a clinker, an ancient phonograph, and assorted eggs, lemons and potatoes...
...Virgil Thomson comes from Missouri, but got to Manhattan by way of Harvard and Paris. Since he repatriated himself and joined the New York Herald Tribune, he has become America's most readable, and perhaps its best, music critic. Concertgoing by night, and composing by day in his dim, Victorian rooms in Manhattan's old Chelsea Hotel, he has also become one of the few U.S.-born composers who can (or cares to) catch the sights, sounds, smells and flavors of the U.S. in his music-one reason that documentary moviemakers like Pare Lorentz (The Plow That Broke...