Word: low
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chunky, slick-spoken Dr. Paul refused to discuss details of his escape or his activities since September. For some time to come, he thought, it would be best to lie low. He would stay in Bavaria, but in hiding. Said he: "There are Communist agents around here, you know...
Wrote Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky: "Musorgsky you are quite right in characterizing as hopeless, [but] his talent is perhaps the most remarkable of all [the Five]. . . . He has some sort of low nature which loves all that is coarse, crude and rough . . . coquets with his illiteracy and takes pride in his ignorance, rolling along, blindly believing in the infallibility of his own genius. But he has a real, and even original, talent which flashes out now and then. . . . Musorgsky, for all his ugliness, speaks a new language. Beautiful it may not be, but it is fresh...
...proposed merger had made it possible for many a stockholder-and speculator-to make a killing in the market. The merger talk, rumored in the market long before it was announced, had helped send Mission Corp. stock up from the year's low of $28¾to a high of $56⅜|. Pacific Western had gone from $21¾ to $59¾. Both stocks broke sharply when Skelly won his injunction. Last week Getty and Sunray decided to call the whole deal...
Crossfire (American). A lucky combination (talent, front-office permission, a low budget, a rushed shooting schedule, and a subject worth feeling strongly about -anti-Semitism) produced the year's most vivid melodrama (TIME...
...movies richest in spirit and vitality came from Italy. By comparison, even the best British films were academic and genteel (Britain's best was, significantly, an adaptation of a literary classic). French films in general were ultra-civilized but low in vigor. Russia had all but ceased to exist as a source of movie interest, except to Russophiles; Germany was just beginning to stir...