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...used none of the familiar winks, grimaces, and gestures. Depending solely on the songs for effect throughout the performances. He translated as many of the foreign songs as he could, because, as he explained, "original lyric is rot"--the song is ineffective unless the audience understands it. This disregard for accent extended to his singing Negro songs "straight...
Fair Deal program. His legislative leaders were rebellious, disgruntled by his failure to consult them, annoyed by his disregard for their views. Congress spent the week ignoring, disregarding or repudiating several of his proposals...
...clear that this disregard for law, custom and the opinion of mankind . . . cannot be reconciled with the Soviet Government's continued protestations of its devotion to the cause of peace...
After seven months of investigating, the grand jury of eleven men and ten women had decided that it could no longer delay in disclosing "this terrible lawlessness, this utter disregard of our state as well as our municipal laws." Missouri's Democratic Governor Forrest Smith, who appoints the board which controls Kansas City's police department, said in effect: Don't look at me; it all happened before my time...
...dispute came to a head at a recent central committee meeting. Shiga warned against Titoist tendencies in the Japanese party leadership. Nozaka and Tokuda, he charged, showed "sectarian" disregard for criticism, ignored "the great role [of the] Cominform . . . and Soviet Union in the forefront of internationally advancing people's power," and stuck dangerously to outmoded notions of a popular front with bourgeois elements. "The time has come, comrades," exhorted Shiga, "to bend our utmost efforts toward the bolshevization of the party." When Nozaka and Tokuda squelched the memo in which Shiga set forth his views, Shiga let it leak...