Word: minding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whenever Orson Welles starts his fertile mind working on a picture, the result is going to be, to put it mildly, out of the ordinary. Welles wrote, produced, directed, and took the lead role in "The Lady from Shanghai," which has a more complex plot than did "The Big Sleep" a few years back, and which gets Welles into more unusual situations than Bugs Bunny ever dreamed...
...complicated arguments can arise, such as whether or not the Yard may be used, or whether or not rallies ought to be held during classes. But the fundamental point that both the Council, in its recommendations, and the Administration, in its final set of rules, must bear in mind is that the rules should apply strictly and absolutely equally to all requests. No group should be subject to any political prejudices whatsoever...
...promote MVA in July, 1945, and called for a million-name petition to be waved at the rocaleitrant Congress. One of the Committee's promoters, a state senator from Missouri, had just been converted to MVA by a tour through the Tennessee Valley, "The trip completely eliminated from my mind the erroncous idea that TVA was of a socialistic, regimenting, paternalistic character, dabbling in social service, character-building, folk dancing and other foreign fields," he said. But President Truman's original enthusiasm for MVA was waning, and Congress was happy to let the controversial Murray Bill gather dust...
According to Gootenberg the big question in the public mind today is whether or not Eisenhower can be drafted. In answer to this question he calls attention to a reently printed article in which Leonard V. Finder, to whom Eisenhower wrote his first letter of refusal, maintains that he will permit himself to be drafted if enough pressure is brought to bear...
...Owned the Sow? The feud of the Hatfields and the McCoys is surely one of the great U.S. folk stories. It has sunk into the popular mind with Li'l Abner connotations, a confused impression of moonshiners, hillbillies, revenue officers, and verbs with "a" in front of them ("I don't feel like runnin', I'm a-goin' t'fight"). Actually, the Hatfield-McCoy feud was a tragedy, violent and unrelenting, with its characters, doomed and possessed, living their parts with fixed intensity...