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...appears that the loudest applause was reserved for the various verbal lashings dealt the Senator, by everyone eventually, even Cousin Roy. Yet it would have been quite consistent with the earlier portrayal of the old Bourbon if he had been led to recant his bigotry. But one failing more irksome on reflection than apparent on sight, is perhaps a symptom of the in growth of prejudice, in this instance to the very actors, or the director. A strained match between Howard and Alice seems to be justification enough for several chilly kisses, while the warm and central love between Nevvy...
First came the White Russians, who as taxi drivers, doormen or waiters could not forget that they had once been gentlefolk. Next came the people who had laughed loudest at the White Russians, the fugitives from Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. Then in a swamping human surf came the fugitives from Spain. Czechoslovakia, the Low Countries, France. All of them bore, like a leper's bell, the one ineffaceable possession left them by their ordeal-the mood of quiet desperation, quiet, because its very existence threatened the peace of mind of those who still felt secure; quiet, because...
Boos for Brass. In Manila, where G.I.s started sporadic demonstrations several weeks ago, the noise was loudest. Dis integration of the soldierly virtues had shown in drunkenness, reckless driving, carelessness in dress. Then demonstrations became organized...
...spite of all, Guitarist Eddie Condon got a nightclub of his own, where for the first time he was "eligible on both sides of the bar." Eddie Condon's, an incongruously plush spot, opened its doors in Manhattan's Greenwich Village and let out some of the loudest and longest renditions of Tea for Two and I've Found a New Baby to be heard since Prohibition...
Wherever the means existed, the Opposition was beginning to speak its mind. And it spoke loudest under the heel of occupation. No army of occupation is popular, and the rough, tough Red Army is an unrivaled ambassador of ill will. The longer the Russians stayed, the longer their presence and policy were resented. Indeed, Communist parties tended to put up better performances in countries where the Red Army had not settled like locusts (e.g., France, Denmark...