Word: life
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They run to considerable length, neatly panned out in slanting German script; most of them simply describe everyday life--"very ordinary"--and ask questions about America and its people. Many call for student exchanges to enable the countries to "vanish international misunderstanding." And nearly all constantly thank the students who they claim are doing so much "to show us the need to democracy...
Most of the letters are written in the characteristic German inverted sentence structure, for which all the correspondents are apologetic. Many of the writers are surprised at the glimpses of life in America they have picked up through letters, films, and contact with occupation armies; one writer who claims four years of English, describes his surprise at a student's preference for Beethoven and Brahms. "I am surprised to hear that you are fond of hearing classical music. I cannot think that many Americans like to hear it. I guess for them there is no great music but Jazz...
...this unusual moviemaking team, pushes Mom and Dad as if it were snake oil. The film is shown only to unmixed audiences after a town has been saturated with a ballyhoo campaign that leaves no one but the livestock unaware of the chance to learn the facts of life. Each of the 16 prints of the film now touring the U.S. has its own advance man, plus a lecturer and two "nurses." The so-called nurses revive spectators who faint during the bolder medical sequences. During intermission, after the lecturer's spiel, they help him hawk pamphlets...
Professors Alvin H. Hansen will not give any undergraduate courses in economics, and Professor Kluckhohn will not give Anthropology and Modern Life...
Some Operations have been more subtle. Life Magazine put the maraschino on its latest Americanism sundae with a two-page picture spread of "fellow-travelers and dupes" who backed the Cultural and Scientific Conference in New York. The rogues' gallery left little space for a small-print admission that not all of these people were really dangerous, that some were merely being "duped," and that much of the "evidence" against others was hearsay. A magazine with Life's circulation can bring a lot more pressure merely by visual impression and numbers than a paper like the Herald...