Word: ever
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...member, Republican and Democrat alike, rose to dispute Texas Ed. Pennsylvania's James G. Fulton pointed out that the D.P. behavior record was better than that of the U.S. occupation forces. New York's Kenneth B. Keating declared: "They are the most fervid anti-Communists I have ever encountered." To exclude any possible subversives, "there has been set up a truly formidable labyrinth of five screening agencies through which these people must go." Added Kentucky's Frank L. Chelf: "Out of the 200 D.P. camps personally visited...we found only one D.P. in jail...He had slapped...
...Defense Lawyer Harry Sacher stood up and shouted "I advise him of his constitutional right to refuse." Judge Medina stonily intoned "I repeat my direction." Gates was defiant: "I would have to bow my head in shame and I could never raise my head in decent society if I ever became a stool pigeon. Even under the court's direction...
...Ever since the first producer discovered it was bad business to hurt people's feelings, movie-making has been an industry in sneakers, carefully and profitably tip-toeing around any problem liable to jar the customer's ego. During these 40-odd years, Hollywood has kept its eye fixed steadily on the Box Office as the one valid index of public morality and has consequently built up a picture of American life which is as false as it is glossy and as harmful as it is complacent. Now, at last, this bright veneer shows signs of wearing thin. Movies...
...stimulating and some of them convincing, on religion, psychology, music, letters, politics, education, the South, women, and sundry related topics. His ideas are often largely nonsensical. But they are never completely so. You may be reading through the wildest moments of a polemic against democracy, wondering if he is ever going to stop jabbering, when suddenly he does just that. Suddenly a paragraph intrudes, or a sentence, or an epigrammatic phrase, and makes you stop and think, and sticks with you and bounces about in your head for several hours, or even days. At his worst, in his most inaccurate...
...When he is going well, he is unbeatable. He writes about Judd gray, the co-murderer, with Ruth Snyder, in a famously atrocious crime of the Twenties, with really extraordinary perception. He has a piece called "The Critical Process" which is the most illuminating discussion of criticism I have ever read. And he writes about Beethoven's Third Symphony with such excitement that if you can read music, you will be impelled to hunt up a score of the "Eroica" and see for yourself what he is taking about. Nobody else for Bernard Shaw, has written of music with such...