Word: isn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When told what Frederic Wakeman had said in The Hucksters about the industry's ad-madness, she gasped: "Oh, it just isn't true! Procter & Gamble have always been lovely...
...would be unfair [to suggest] that all censorship is harmful or silly. It isn't. . . . Broadcasters quite understandably don't like to offend individuals, minority groups, religious orders, advertisers or members of other nationalities. . . . The intentions are good but the administration is ridiculous. . . . For example...
...home of American culture"-was ready to get back to New York City, to "bring up our children under democratic conditions." He had discovered "the stultifying atmosphere of New England prejudice; it's in the air, you get it on all sides, there's no pretending it isn't so, it can't be ignored. . . . The children are as bad as their parents and grandparents. Education has really done them no good...
...thousand and one niceties of refinement with which this avid acquirer of hot platters has seen fit to burden his and other people's lives, one could write a fair sized novel, but that isn't the most interesting part of it all. What really excites the imagination and stirs the blood is the fact that such a person walks the streets unmanacled, breathes the free air and during his lucid moments actually holds a position of responsibility in our society. As a matter of fact, there are many such. You meet people like him every...
...Koussevitzky, who is always enthusiastic about new things in rehearsals, glowed that it was classic in form and sometimes "very near to Haydn." The Boston Symphony conductor turned often to his protege, Leonard Bernstein, to remark "Isn't it beautiful?" Bernstein thought it a bore...