Word: meannesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heaven's sake, where oh where did you get that fantastic line about Sir Archibald McIndoe: "Some of his patients call [him] 'God'-and partly mean it" [TIME, Sept. 27]? I have known Sir Archibald since I crashed in flames in 1941, and have been under his chopper 32 times ... I have never heard him spoken of as God ... If your correspondent (may he be hoist by his own typewriter) had said that Sir Archie was known to the boys as "The Boss," "Maestro," "Mac," or merely "The Big White Chief," then he would have been guilty...
...first time, Truman plunged boldly into foreign policy. Said he: "Unity . . . cannot be produced by mealy-mouthed political speeches. Unity on great issues comes only when the voice of the people has been heard so clearly, so strongly, so unmistakably that no one . . . can doubt what the people mean . . . We did not have unity in foreign policy in 1940 . . . The Republican leaders were mainly isolationists...
Evil Spirits. From earliest times through the Middle Ages, mental illness was taken to mean that the victim was "possessed" by evil spirits. For centuries people with abnormal mental quirks were either revered, treated as harmless "naturals," or chained, flogged or burned at the stake...
...finest sounded a little thin. True to French tradition, the woodwind choir was outstanding (many a top U.S. woodwind player learned his trade from the French). Some in the audience missed the drilled precision of U.S. orchestras. Explained Director Barraud: "Our musicians are individualists. I don't mean that one violinist will be pushing up his bow while another is pulling his down, but there are differences in technique. We may not be so mechanically perfect-but we sound better." Few listeners were ready to go that far, but most agreed that the French orchestra had a cleanness...
...will produce S. N. Behrman's translation of "Amphitryon 38." The HDC's president has described the play as "gaggy and sexy," and it is all that. It is also first-class high comedy. And it is a play that has two terrific star parts--and by terrific I mean long and difficult, but striking when played well...