Word: maining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Playing its aces early, the Smoker Committee presented all its stars--Victor Borge, Al Capp, Art Valpey, and Sherman Feller in the opening half of the evening. Lack of any main attractions is Kitty Kallen's last minute failure to appear, caused Freshmen to file out even more calmly than they field...
John Moore's studies of men and manners in the Cotswolds, as presented in Brensham Village and its predecessor The Fair Field (TIME, Dec. 9, 1946), will do for the U.S. reader what Hollywood did for Lord Orris-transport him into an overseas dreamland whose main charm is its remoteness from everyday life. Just as the romantic "reporting" of H. L. Mencken makes old Baltimore a place of "happy days," so does Author Moore's accomplished imagination remove his rural Englishmen as far from mediocre reality as Falstaff and Prince Hal are from the men in the Kinsey...
Inverchapel told his audience that the main political problem in Britain and other Western democracies is "to reconcile liberty with control by the community of the community's material fortunes...
Dana remarked that the Russians recognized that English art and drama was part of the heritage the Red Army fought to preserve in the last war. "On the eve of the German invasion in 1941," he said, the main attraction in Moscow was "Midsummer Night's Dream...
Sweezy pointed out that the main points now offered in defense of capitalism are out-dated and have lost all persuasiveness...