Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...catch the feel of victory in reports like these, our prayers join with yours that this Easter Week 1945 may bring us very close to the end of our fighting across the Atlantic...
Ebullient Pierre Mendès-France is a youthful (38) politician with a veteran's flair for gauging the public mood. Last week spring burgeoned in Paris, and it was inevitable that winter-weary, war-worn Frenchmen should feel that at least half their troubles were over. Sensitive Mendes-France sniffed deeply and bounced up with the most optimistic official word yet on French recovery...
Main reason the ardent purists have not been more successful is that congregations like to sing. Listening to Palestrina, however purely performed, is not the same thing at all. Many a churchgoer has come to feel that the service is already less for the congregation than for the choir, and he resents any fresh attempts to turn his place of worship into what is beginning to look like a mere concert hall...
...movie is incomplete without the gently savage cartoons, by the same token the cartoons are incomplete without the affectionately explanatory movie. Many liberals and leftists are going to feel that Blimp has been whitewashed into a Dear Old Boy-as indeed he has; but David Low himself, who advised on the characterization and makeup, is well satisfied. Says he: "Blimp is a symbol of stupidity and stupid people are not necessarily hateful. In fact, some stupid people are quite nice...
...course of the picture Miss Fontaine wears practically everything decency will permit, from pants to armor. Men who wander in by mistake may stay to enjoy the scenery (Miss Fontaine), but they are likely to feel that Paramount has been a trifle overgenerous with everything except what it takes to make an entertaining movie. The Affairs of Susan is one for the women...