Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Perhaps even your correspondent and the "elegant" Parisiennes would not feel imaginative after a night in an Anderson shelter, emerging the next morning probably to find that they have not even any "unimaginative" clothes left...
Then Tom Dewey tried to convince the voters that the Administration's foreign policy is dangerously vague and weak. But many millions of U.S. voters feel that any talk about foreign policy is necessarily baffling and complicated. This is how Dewey got his point across at St. Louis...
...inequality, and its social system rests on shaky foundations. The present government rests on a coalition of four parties: Peasant, Liberals, Social Democratic, Communist. Communism is not strong in Rumania; the Communist Party claims only about 2,000 members. But the presence of the Red Army makes the Communists feel stronger, and they hold something like a whip hand in the Government, because they are able at any time to brand it as reactionary simply by withdrawing their support. What the Russian attitude toward the Communists is is not clear, but they do not openly or officially support them...
Fred Astaire, having danced his way through a six-week U.S.O. tour of the European theater, arrived in Manhattan, reported that when doughboys asked "How does it feel to hold Rita Hayworth (or Ginger Rogers) in your arms?" he invariably replied: "Fine-they're swell dancers." Groaned the doughboys: "Aw, that's not what we meant...
...varied fare-on successive nights Shakespeare, Sheridan, Chekhov, Goldoni, Ostrovski, Shaw, Molière, Oscar Wilde, Gorki. Occasionally new shows about the "great patriotic war" are produced, like Leonid Leonov's Invasion, a hot and angry placard. But actors and directors take a long view and do not feel that any new plays have yet come out of the war which will live as Russian drama...