Word: either
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Frigid Ruin. A deal along those lines, instead of a Communist-dominated government for all China, might be shaping up. In either case, the Communist boss, Mao Tse-tung, would probably demand that Chiang Kai-shek leave office. There seemed to be little disposition in China to resist such a demand...
...bankers were not convinced, either by Snyder or by Sawyer. In a survey of 310 representative banks, A.B.A. had found that borrowers were becoming slower in their payments, working capital was being absorbed by rising inventories, and demand for loans was dropping. The bankers concluded that the U.S. "may be at an economic crossroads. A turn one way can mean a continued inflationary spiral, a turn the other way can bring a recession...
...Furtwängler, who had once taken a Nazi post, but who fought to keep the Jewish musicians in his Berlin Philharmonic;* and Flagstad, who had returned to occupied Norway to be with her husband (he died before he could be tried for collaboration). Flagstad had never sung for either quislings or Nazis...
Father Lombardi spoke first. He said: "It is either in Communism or Christianity that humanity must find a solution . . . There is much good in Communism . . . but the good there is in you, Mr. Spano, comes from your being Christian not Communist . . . We aren't opposed to Communists who expect social betterment . . . but the purely materialistic view which discards spiritual values, leads to the dictatorship of a single class and to the concentration of this dictatorship finally in the hands of a single man . . . May Christianity enliven all that is Christian in Communism...
...then went back for a second look. This time, he reported with satisfaction, the capacity audience wasn't finding nearly so much to laugh at. "Opening night yaks were being greeted by yawns." Billy's diagnosis: "On opening night, the wise-guy audience laughed fit to bust, either because it was hep to Hart's lilliputian libels, or because it wanted the fellow in the next seat to think it was. But the average gent and his missus are evidently more interested in laughter . . . Light Up the Sky comes through as a private show-business joke...