Word: familiarizes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wagner: A Wagner Program (NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini conducting; Victor, 8 sides). The selections are the familiar Siegfried Idyll, Faust Overture, Ride of the Valkyries. Performance: excellent...
Objectivism. What was the objectionable "objectivism?" In Aleksandrov's case, it was merely the familiar polemical device of building 'em up before knocking 'em down. He had used this technique on Bacon, Descartes, Spinoza, Kant, Fichte, Hegel. But he had also been found guilty of playing with metaphysics, a reprehensible sin in Russia, and he had depicted Marxism as an evolution from earlier philosophy. Thundered Zhdanov: "The origin of Marxism was a real discovery, a revolution in philosophy." In the wake of Zhdanov's thunder, 46 of Aleksandrov's colleagues and coworkers, among them doubtless...
...familiar farce of a totalitarian election-totally rigged, that is-moved toward its familiar climax last week in Hungary. The Social Democrats, the Smallholders and the National Peasants had been tamed and absorbed into the Communist-dominated Government "coalition." Of real anti-Communist opposition there was almost none...
...Cartwheels. Gracie's Working Party is shrewdly hooked up with a patriotic motif. Touring the British Isles, Gracie performs before large audiences of workers, as a part of Britain's current production drive. Britons are fondly familiar with the "low but clean" pattern of a Fields performance. There are 45 minutes of sentimental ballads, sung in an ear-jarring soprano that sometimes shrills up to high C, and comedy songs (like her famed The Biggest Aspidistra in the World), screeched out in unabashed Lancastrian...
...sharp critical razor. The film achieves a telling effect by letting radio speak for itself-on the theory that there is enough rope lying around any broadcasting studio to hang most of the people responsible for radio. A good deal is accomplished, too, by the unemphatic statement of some familiar but appalling statistics: the suds of soap opera drown out 48% of daylight broadcasting time, and some 20 million U.S. housewives love that suds...