Word: grave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some observers in Chungking jumped to the conclusion that Manchuria might be "irretrievably lost" to the Central Government. The facts were grave, but not quite so catastrophic...
...Great Want. Kalinin's prime job is to interpret the people's reactions to Soviet policy makers and to sell Soviet policy to the people. Addressing a group of Communist Party organizers who work among collective farmers, he took grave note of rising Russian dissatisfaction, caused in part by German destruction and the cost of war and in part by a discovery made by millions of Red Army men - men-that every country they entered in Europe had a higher living standard than theirs...
Cold Garrets & Warm Music. A considerable amount of immortal music has been written in cold garrets, with an empty larder in the background. Richard Wagner and Felix Mendelssohn lived comfortable lives, but Mozart, after a life of penny-counting, was buried in an unmarked pauper's grave, and Franz Schubert sold his songs for as little...
...conference opened, Harry Truman stood up before the delegates, a grave, grey man in a dark blue suit, and read gravely and greyly from his black looseleaf notebook: "[The eyes of the American people] are turned here in the expectation that you will furnish a broad and permanent foundation for industrial peace and progress. "Our country is worried about our industrial relations. It has a right to be. That worry is reflected in the halls of the Congress in the form of all kinds of proposed legislation. You have it in your power to stop that worry. I have supreme...
...UNQUIET GRAVE - "Palinurus" (Cyril Connolly]-Harper ($2.50). Cyril Connolly is a British writer of a type almost unknown in the U.S.: an essayist (Enemies of Promise), critic and editor whose influence is as great as his output is small. During the past six years, his bright literary monthly, Horizon, has become must reading for British intellectuals. In The Unquiet Grave, Critic Connolly lets his sizable group of followers down. He serves up a bitter salad of clever preciosity and engaging self-pity: a collection of notes about love, art and religion jotted down while he was on fire-watching duty...