Word: fashioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Powerful Voice. "Our greatest error would be to fashion our foreign policy merely in terms of antiCommunism. We will fail miserably if we do no more than that. If we follow that course, war will soon appear as the only alternative...
...villa on the Via Tuscolana, with its book-lined walls and plain desk. He made a visit of inspection last week. Limping through the high-ceilinged rooms (his leg was injured in 1926 when, after a U.S. lecture tour, he tried to swing aboard a moving Turin streetcar, American fashion), he issued his first orders. A lot of the massive furniture was to be taken out; his stacks of books and his plain old desk would be moved...
...resourceful printing company known as "Adprint," which is backed by Britain's potent chemical firm, C. Tennant Sons & Co. Ltd. Tennant helped Foges get out of Vienna shortly before the Anschluss; he had already made a name as editor of a youth magazine at 17, a fashion magazine...
What else does television offer? Mostly a routine stew of quiz shows, man-in-the-street interviews, cooking lessons galore, charades, fashion shows, vaudeville turns, illustrated weather forecasts, and pickups of radio broadcasts (beginning June 1 We the People will be seen as well as heard). And then there are films, the wilted coleslaw on television's bill of fare. The ancient cabbages that are rolled across the telescreen every night are Hollywood's curse on the upstart industry. Televiewers, sick of hoary Hoot Gibson oaters and antique spook comedies, wonder when, if ever, they will see fresh...
Like most such pseudo-bucolic rubbish about simple folk, this one has only the very transient virtue of being in fashion. It was a mistake to waste, on such a story, the brusque, noble backgrounds (the Scottish island of Skye) and the honest abilities of Director David MacDonald, who had the controlling hand in making Desert Victory, one of the first really excellent war documentaries...