Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Careful analysis and second-sighting on previous encounters seem to reveal that the outstanding tendency is not one for upsets as such but instead for tremendous personal disappointments in a sort of poetically justified way, with the far-famed Barry Wood-Albie Booth rivalry of the turn of the twentieth century's third decade providing one of the outstanding examples...
...often represent the crassly commercial side of theatre, and the cumbersome "Billion Dollar Baby" can be classed with the average Hollywood-influenced money-maker. It's big business, and it may even be entertainment, but it's not art. Pretentiousness has won out over simplicity, and the entire production, instead of being consistently light, tuneful, and humorous (like "On the Town"), is cluttered and heavy, with only occasional flashed of brilliance shining through...
...Instead, the Russians agreed to a Central Government landing at Yingkow, a minor Manchurian port. But when U.S. trans ports made ready to unload, the Russians suddenly pulled out, leaving Chinese Communists in control. In the face of threatened Communist opposition, U.S. Vice Admiral Daniel E. Barbey withdrew his transports...
...number instead of a name...
Concludes Major Highet: "It is rich enough to make ... a complete sociological novel. . . . Will she suffer, or will she be contented . . . because she has bettered herself, and because her children will wear good black clothes and have carved chairs instead of wearing peasant stuff and sitting on the floor...