Word: ears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Poll & Payroll. Then, fairly sniffing the stale air of speakeasies and Minsky burlesque shows, and cocking an ear for the tugboat whistles that used to herald a civic reception for a Channel swimmer or a Uruguayan pingpong champ, the News set out to bring Jimmy back. It hired teams of canvassers (at $10 a day apiece) to poll the city, promising its readers that the poll "will be conducted scientifically and impartially." Actually, no Ja vote in Hitler's Reich ever packed a more loaded question than the one the News launched its poll with: "If not Walker...
...once Japan is defeated militarily, what then? There are two points of view. One, to which Washington lends an attentive ear, has been best expressed by Under Secretary of State Joseph Clark Grew, who for ten years was U.S. Ambassador to Tokyo. He compares Japanese society to a hive, the Emperor to the queen bee. There comes a time when the queen is thrust out. The hive follows her to its new home. "It was not the queen which made the decision; yet, if one were to remove the queen from the swarm, the hive would disintegrate...
...Buried Secret. New bits of evidence were brought up. A farmer boy from Enfield produced a piece of bloodstained lead which, he said, must have been that which tore Bet's ear as she climbed out of the bawdyhouse window. Mary Squires herself further complicated things by suggesting that she was a witch quite capable of being in both Enfield and Abbotsbury at once...
...Yank contributor) Reporter Bernstein presents his G.I.s with affection, understanding, some acid humor, no glamor. In foxholes and juke joints these free-&-easy democrats bristle with the sour, witty, aggressively individualistic, trigger-quick cracks that make the U.S. warrior incomprehensible (and therefore frightening) to his enemies. With a keen ear for idiom and a deft hand with dialogue, Reporter Bernstein has successfully put the G.I. gripe down on paper...
...wordy and preachy. Under the sentimental pressure of its death-v.-dishonor plot, its tough, realistic tone slowly melts away. Anger rather than ardor makes Playwright Chodorov vibrant. His highly charged first act really gets under your skin. Thereafter, Common Ground strikes forcibly only upon the ear...