Word: ets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Byrnes, OPA, et al. have licked the problem of price control, rationed all essential goods & services, put across "a fair tax program" (instead of what the union calls "soak-the-poor taxes"), the electrical workers will take their cost-of-living raise in war bonds. If not, they will insist upon "a flat cents-per-hour raise to the base rates of pay . . . to reflect the cost-of-living increase that will have taken place from May 15, 1942 to Aug. 15, 1943 . . . paid in money...
Directly following this, Ravel's "Daphnis et Chloc" Ballet was heard. The music, full of "poetic imagination," instrumental color, exceedingly clever orchestration, was competently enough performed. But perhaps it was not up to the rest of the program in some ways. The dynamics were good, but at times overdone. The effect was complete, but at the same time there were too many breaks, the continuity not always intact...
Nearly everybody else had already had his say on Admiral Jean François Darlan, when last week the Admiral decided to have a say for himself. He took great pains to repair his reputation. At the exotic Palais d'Eté in Algiers he received correspondents individually and en masse. The Admiral was wearing sharkskin civvies with a white shirt, a brown polka-dot tie and black shoes. His grey-green eyes peered brightly through his horn-rimmed spectacles. Tiny veins threaded his florid cheeks. His grey hair was trimmed close. He sat behind a glass-topped work...
...they had the persistency and the money to keep at it for a decade and to raise Common Sense to a level of intellectual respectability. They have by now published contributions by most of the right left-people-John Dos Passos, John Chamberlain, John Dewey, Marquis Childs, Stephen Spender, et al. They have ground axes for India's freedom, racial equality, a nonpunitive peace. They have also succeeded for ten years in running an average deficit of around $700 a month...
...simply that its meaning has become so obvious as to be both platitudinous and commonplace. The stuff of tragedy is rapidly becoming as easy to swallow as water. And even though it might look like gin to the public, no discerning critic can get drunk on water. Anderson et ilk seem to insist on taking the short cut to universality, and it invariably leads them to brutality...