Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sirs: We have just received a copy of TIME [Sept. 18] and after reading your story about our 27th division on Saipan we feel that this article is outrageous and unfair to the men who gave their lives for their country...
...have just read ... of Wendell Willkie's death, and I feel a deep sorrow because a great hope has died with him. You have a Roosevelt and a Dewey and will have one of them as your next President. Both are politicians; both are shrewd. But we, the men of all nations, had a Willkie and we have lost him. He was not shrewd, but he was sincere. Perhaps he was a poor politician . . . but he was something very much more than that...
...nearness of victory brings with it a wonderful sense of relief and excitement which you can feel in the theaters. Chekhov's line near the end of The Three Sisters, "Tomorrow . . . a new life will begin for us," brings tears to Russian eyes. That is their real hope now. And yet, this confidence is not unmixed with uneasiness. The Russian theater knows it cannot detach itself from politics in the largest sense of the word. The other day Leonid Leonov suddenly broke off a discussion of play writing to say with great emotion: "But if in the world...
...Sibelius told me he listens frequently to the radio and so keeps in touch with current music. 'I heard the Leningrad Symphony and I feel Shostakovich has very great talent,' he said...
...drafted by Donald J. Wheeler of Seattle, Boeing Aircraft Co. engineer. Wheeler expects private plane buyers will want a four-passenger ship with a speed of at least 130 m.p.h., a range of 500 miles, priced from $1,500 to $3,500. Two surprising facts: designers, in the main, feel the public will not want 1) a flivver plane selling for $1,000 or less, if speed and comfort are sacrificed, 2) a helicopter...