Word: happens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...throes of mass murder and fleeing populations. Persia, stiffened by promises of U.S. support, was resisting Russian demands. Greece (and the U.S. support of Greece) was confronted by the danger of a rival Greek Communist state, supported by Russia through her Balkan stooges. Almost anything might happen in Italy...
...comedy, but he doesn't approve of radio. Longtime writer-director-co-star of Easy Aces, he is an expert on the medium he loves to pan: "Now take the rating system. That's the stupidest thing I ever heard of. What do you think would happen if a drama critic said Finian's Rainbow was a good, solid 10.4?" In the old days, Ace scornfully poohpoohed Easy Aces' consistently low Hooperating by explaining that "the people who are listening to me are so crazy about the program they won't even...
Shoeshine was intended as a furious and moving indictment of a postwar society, and of a world, in which such things could happen. It is all of that, and more. It makes the oversimplified diagnosis and prescription of most social tracts look like so much complacent blueprint. It is filled, in every scene, with an awareness of the pitiful complexity of the causes of even simple evil. The jailers, bureaucrats, magistrates, lawyers and priests who are cogs in the machinery of destruction are savagely caricatured, but each one of them is presented with compassion and understanding, as well as rage...
Away from Home. To test this theory, Yeagley trained hundreds of pigeons to return to their home roosts at State College, Pennsylvania. When they were thoroughly indoctrinated, he took them to a part of Nebraska where the lines representing the earth's magnetism happen to cross the parallels of latitude at the same angle as at State College. When he released the pigeons to the east of this "false home," they headed away from their Pennsylvania home. Thrown off their course by their navigating instruments, the pigeons all flew west. Professor Yeagley believes his experiment proves that pigeons...
...systematic and sinister anti-Catholicism of organized groups like the committee of ministers which last week returned to this country from Yugoslavia. . . . The damage is being done by men who-may God forgive them-are introduced as 'Reverend.' . . . We live in evil times when things can happen like the sell-out to Tito of the eight Protestant clergymen who were hand-picked to defend Tito's war on religion. . . . It is a problem for our non-Catholic neighbors when seven of their clergymen can become conspirators in a Communist campaign without being repudiated by their fellow...