Word: kindness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...foreign correspondents who learned their trade under the auspices of the free U.S. or British press, the kind of restricted news coverage that the Balkans Communist states now have to offer is, to say the least, frustrating. It is all the more to the credit of those correspondents who remain, therefore, that they are doing a tough job as best they can until the Iron Curtain closes completely or it again becomes possible to report freely what is going on in the Balkans...
When the foreign ministers of Britain and France sat down with Secretary of State Dean Acheson, almost everyone expected that their conversations would be of the dull and profitless sort that are officially known as "exploratory." The talks proved to be nothing of the kind. Last week, after months of recriminations, bickerings and mutual suspicions, France's Robert Schuman, Britain's Ernest Bevin, and Acheson swiftly compromised their quarrels and wrote what amounted to an interim peace treaty for Western Germany...
Last week, Tenor Rounseville finally got success, of the kind he wanted. With financial help from his home town of Attleboro, Mass., he had worked hard with a teacher, spent the summer of 1948 at Boris Goldovsky's opera school at Tanglewood. After a student production of the Fountain Scene from Pelléas and Mélisande there, he landed a chance to sing Pélleas in the New York City Opera's closing performance last year. Ace French Repertory Conductor Jean Morel liked Rounseville's big, wide-ranging tenor voice, taught him to sing...
...Marietta" and "Bittersweet," is still very delightful to watch, both for her graceful beauty and her thorough characterization of the well-meaning, suspicious mother-in-law who almost wreeks her daughter's marriage. As her sister-in-law and complete opposite, June Walker is bouncy and very funny. The kind of woman who was once called "ente as a bug's car," she is now pudgy and painted, given to wearing fluffy mules around the house because of "foot trouble" but who nevertheless takes samba lessons. Most of the time Miss Walker is on stage she is "simply in stitches...
...Frederick Lewis Allen '12 has been able to make an impartial study of one of the great figures of that time. He takes J. Pierpont Morgan, whose name at the turn of the century was the symbol for economic power, and shows his character and motives. Allen asks, "What kind of man was he, who more than any other was responsible for the growth of huge, monopolistic business enterprise...