Word: flows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Criminal proceedings were brought only against the associations, which cannot serve a prison term; officers of the associations, who conceivably could, were named in a civil suit only. Despite such dove-roaring, however, Washington expected the flow of indictments to continue. For Tom Clark's crusade was so patently political that almost every businessman could expect some accusation of one sort or another before next year's election...
...until now, most of the slave-camp exposes consisted of narratives of personal experience and scattered corroboration drawn from between-the-lines interpretations of official documents. What Author Dallin has done is to bring all of this material together in a thoroughly documented volume. Documentation impedes the narrative flow and hampers the book's organization, but it serves its own arresting end. It gives the slave-camp horror a third-dimensional depth and breadth and establishes the Soviet version of planned economy for what it is: history's most monstrous crime against the individual...
...much there to disgust and annoy American audiences. The extravagant hero-worship will only increase our lack of understanding of the Russian mind, while little can be found to excuse the vengeful care with which the camera follows the last efforts of the defeated soldiers drowning in an ice flow...
...those who wonder what Russians sing besides the Volga Boatman and Ochi Chernyia, Vasili Pavlovich Solovyev-Sedoi, Russia's top Tin Pan Alley man, has the answer. Sedoi's simple, easy-to-hum melodies flow constantly out of Russian radios. In restaurants and cabarets, couples sway nightly to such Sedoi hits as Nightingale, It's Long Since We've Been Home. More important yet, Songwriter Sedoi manages to please Russia's culture cops, who regard dzhaz as "vulgar musical stew." This year, Sedoi won his second Stalin prize...
...Want Gable!" But regrets were not confined to Hollywood. As nothing else could, the sudden break in the flow of movies dramatized the full impact of Britain's dollar-economy program on the United Kingdom. Britons pined out loud for Dick Haymes and other Hollywood stars. Clergymen and educators, who commented that "now at least we can keep the King's English pure," were in the minority. In London, an enraged electrician's wife echoed the cries of thousands of British women: "This is the last straw; we have no one like Gable in British pictures...