Word: mentions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...complimented on your mention of Douglas Moore's article in the Saturday Review of Literature [TIME, Jan. 27], Professor Moore's remarks are quite generally shared throughout the country by all professional musicians who know what is going on. That we continue to debate about the American composer, or to discuss the virtues of opera in English, or to give these many ridiculous prizes to Americans, are all evidence of national infantilism...
Someone in Washington also objected to a scene in which Truman first learns that the bomb is feasible and immediately decides to delete Hiroshima. (The scene now includes mention of sleepless White House nights.) M-G-M had to soothe some people who invaded territory still more remote from atomic security. A comic scene, in which Robert Walker (playing a major) makes a pass at a girl, was killed because the Army regarded it as detrimental to the dignity of a major's rank. Still another casualty was the film's only sure-fire chuckle-which had been...
...Lane (in a dark business suit) showed up, shook Bierut's hand, drank his health, sat for an hour at a big round table and exchanged pleasantries with Bierut, Berman and others of the ruling clique. There was no hint of tension or mention of terror. Explained a Pole: "Everyone was extremely cordial and polite; after all, we are all gentlemen...
Berenson implied that one cause of bad painting (not to mention bad music and bad literature) is economic: the necessity of learning one's art too fast in a fiercely competitive and not very discerning market. But he was set against helping artists out.. "In the [United] States after the panic of 1929," Berenson wrote, "the New Deal tried to make work for thousands of painters at public expense. They were kept alive, but I have not heard of the masterpieces they created...
...analysis of London musical life is complete without some mention of the B.B.C.'s magnificent "Third Program." With a love for cycles, this program has broadcast B.B.C. sponsored recitals of the Bach cello suites, the Beethoven piano sonatas, the Well-Tempered Clavier suites, and the Mozart violin concerti; and in other fields has given a Shaw festival and innumerable "readings" of badly neglected English literature...