Word: goals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...declared Priestley, "but to offer this dreary, dirty rubbish ... is an insult to our nation." Minister Wilkinson damned such "appealing . . . to the lower side of human nature," urged on schoolgirls (as future mothers and teachers) the goal of ending "things like that." The shocker: a new cinema version of Getting Gertie's Garter...
...criticisms are too good. Come snobs, I play too pianissimo, too fortissimo, my hair, I am too fat, my dress. My second concert is American concert. Everyone come to see am I really so good. It is not art, it is sport. It is football! If I have goal, bravo! If no goal, goodbye...
...Gera the reporters listened to a nearsighted Communist professor, who might have mistaken his visitors for Soviet newsmen, lecture a training class for new teachers. He argued that Britain and the U.S. had "only formal democracy," struck at the British Labor Government, told the class: "Democracy is not the goal but the way to achieve the goal. As I have repeatedly said, the goal is socialism...
...Bayerische Motoren Werke in Eisenach, 50% destroyed by air bombardment, was turning out eight passenger cars a day against a prewar total of 45. August production goal is 250 cars: 200 for Russian reparations, 50 for Soviet and German zonal administration...
Flying down to Rio, and everywhere in Latin America, was faster and more comfortable than ever. Mexico, prime goal of U.S. wartime travelers, was busier than ever-and higher priced than ever, like every place else. Bermuda was again only three hours from Manhattan by plane (round trip fare $126), or 72 hours by Furness Withey's 100-passenger ships (roundtrip fare: $80-200). The Monarch of Bermuda would not be sailing again till...