Word: masters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After 16 years of uneasy but unbeatable Democratic unity, the political patchwork which Franklin Roosevelt had carefully stitched together was coming apart at the seams. Quite obviously, the situation called for a master tailor with a masterly political needle. And the time for him to do his repair work was at last week's Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner in Washington. But no such wonder-worker appeared...
Mack Sennett, pie-tossing old (64) master of slapstick now enjoying a revival (three studios are said to have considered making a film about his life), mourned that "comedy is becoming a lost art." He recommended a return to first principles: "We kicked hell out of mothers-in-law, but we never touched mothers...
...Lover's Return (French). Louis Jouvet, a ballet master, takes vengeance on some incisively sketched provincial burghers. Intelligent trash, nicely done; pleasant ballet background; an eye-filling dancer named Ludmila Tcherina...
...Members of the first association of Philadelphia master printers...
...Malicious Childhood. Eisenstein developed a theory to explain these unfortunate deviations toward bourgeois art. They were, said he, tag ends of ideas and impressions left over from pre-revolutionary childhood. Eisenstein's sage advice to Soviet artists: "We must master the Lenin-Stalin method of perception . . . to overcome all remnants or survivals of former notions which . . . are obstinately and maliciously attempting to infiltrate into our works as soon as our creative vigilance is weakened even for only a single moment...