Word: disbelief
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...repeated. Then some 1,000,000 census-takers set out to make a house-to-house canvass Many thought that the figures turned up then showed: 1) a decrease in population; 2) too many Russians to be religiously minded for Soviet comfort. No question regarding religious belief or disbelief will be asked in the present census, nor will Soviet citizens again be allowed to list themselves as prostitutes, lackeys or tramps. Soviet citizens will be occupationally grouped under broader terms. The classification for priests is "servitor of a cult"; for one who doesn't earn his living, "non-toiler...
There are other likely candidates, of course. And then there is always the chance that Mr. Roosevelt will indulge himself in another of those proud, unpredictable gestures that sent Hugo Black up to the Supreme Court, to the consternation of the country, and the amazed disbelief of his colleagues: If the President should be in that kind of mood again, anyone from Mayor La Guardia to Governor Phil La Follette or Maury Maverick of Texas might find themselves reading minority opinions one of these days...
...from across the border is ''not the usual enemy! . . . This one conquers other things than countries." And, as in The Fall of the City the people were paralyzed by fear of the tyrant and by uncertainty, in Air Raid the women's doom is their paralyzing disbelief in the tyrant's inhumanity...
Artist Marin's total disbelief in copying nature, on the ground that anyone would rather have a real ear of corn than a painted one, led him ten years ago to a kind of shorthand in which a triangle represented a sail, a jigging line the sea. In his recent work, extremes of this kind have given place to more effective economies: strokes of color and ragged whites which sometimes fail but more often succeed in bringing to life the "fighting" forces of wind, weight, water and light which he feels in landscape. Marin works over each picture with...
...hand of Shakespeare, but the voice of someone more like Leftist Playwright Clifford Odets. Manhattan play-goers took the play's smooth unmetered flow, its indubitable 1937 flavor, with mingled delight and disbelief. The delight was for a first-rate show that, played straight ahead with no break, kept them on the edges of their seats for an hour and forty minutes. The disbelief arose from the snobbish, traditional feeling that Shakespeare must be dressed up fit to kill, cannot possibly be made presentable on the bare boards he wrote...