Word: kindness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pulitzer Prizewinning Playwright Arthur Miller (Death of a Salesman) spoke up for the simple life, in Cue magazine: "I can only work as an anonymous person among anonymous people . . . The kind of life one leads when one has the means for total leisure is a very destructive life. Leisure is a thing that normally takes place once a week in most people's lives, on Sunday . . . For the writer to forget the problems of work and leisure is to forget the basic patterns of people's lives...
World Citizen Garry Davis, 26, was getting the kind of personal attention from Moscow that is usually reserved especially for bigwigs. "American debaucher and maniac," squawked Pravda, "a prophet of the World Government idea, exported from the U.S. to Europe, along with powdered eggs and gangster novels...
...proper mess to me." Ronald Skipsey, a tweedy old insurance man, stayed on the fence: "They say genius is akin to madness, don't they?" But it was a redfaced Wakefield cab driver, Tom Pickering, who came closest to the Yorkshire concensus. "It's a different kind of trade," he cheerfully concluded. "Can't expect t'understand it if yer know nauwt about...
...Boston, just as much as Koussevitzky's had. Says he: "I have no use for those snobs who look down their nose at everything but the most highbrow music-which often they don't understand anyhow. A Strauss waltz is as good a thing of its kind as a Beethoven symphony. It's nice to eat a good hunk of beef, but you want a light dessert, too." Fiedler's aim: to dish up the dessert as well as possible-"I'm very fussy about that...
...Guinea Pig (Pilgrim Pictures; Variety Film) is a fair example, in a minor key, of a kind of film the British often do superbly: the movie which at once reveres and ribs British types and institutions. At its best, this kind of film, like the novels of Charles Dickens (see BOOKS), is rich in unabashed sentiment and meaty caricature...