Word: failed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Devil in the Flesh" is polished, artistic product. It proves what so many American producers fail to understand: imagination and not dollars makes great pictures...
Rows of seats are preferred over a conference table becauses they accommodate large classes. But the practice of moulding educational techniques to the capacity of available class rooms is hardly worthy of America's wealthiest University. Professors who find undergraduates incapable of benefitting from the conference method fail to understand that discussion cannot begin spontaneously after 45 minutes of one-way communication. Participation must be fostered, and it needs mechanical encouragement in room design...
...original painters is a baby-faced 39-year-old named Francis Bacon, and one of the most original things about him is that he has destroyed some 700 canvases to date. "The trouble with Francis," a London friend of Bacon's explained last week, "is that if you fail to go into raptures over one of his finished works, he decides it's no good and tears it up. If you become enthusiastic he begins to worry, decides he doesn't trust your judgment anyway, and that your enthusiasm proves it's a bad picture. Into...
...poems suffer from the same lack of direction. In verse, of course, a poet can succeed by scratching just one image into your mind. But Signature's poets, possibly excepting Miss Benet, don't even do that. They simply fail to arouse, or to "make the reader care...
...many readers will still find it hard to condone the deal, made behind China's back, by which Russia got control of Manchurian ports and rail lines, and President Roosevelt agreed that he would see to it that China swallowed her cup of tea. Nor will most readers fail to wonder how F.D.R. could blandly turn over the Kuril Islands, which control the short air route from Alaska to the Far East. The explanation Stettinius gives: U.S. military chiefs urged Roosevelt to get Stalin into the war against Japan at any cost. In his zeal to give F.D.R...