Word: minding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...word speech, as turbid as the fine print in a lease, Delegate Austin announced that the U.S. had changed its mind on Palestine. The U.S. no longer supported partition. Instead, Austin declared, "My government believes that a temporary trusteeship for Palestine should be established . . .to maintain the peace [until] Jews and Arabs . . . reach an agreement regarding the future government of that country...
...mind." President Conant continued, "the power of Soviet philosophy has been enormously overrated. In world leadership it is simply no match for ours. The only chance the Marxists have rests on the possibility that we Americans will lose confidence in our past, our future, and ourselves
Jassy (Rank; Universal-International). Handsome, hard-working Margaret Lockwood as a gypsy who marries a man she loathes for the sake of a man she loves. Never mind hurrying to the movie just to find out why: it merely proves that the British can make bad ones...
...offices of New York City. But Bellinger's New York is not a dark, tense, malignly beautiful community; evil things go on there, but by & large the city is bursting with energy, grandeur, sunlight, human variety and an eager journalistic glamor. All these qualities linger pleasantly in the mind long after the picture is over...
...habitual disappointment or in cocoons of selfdelusion. In one of the best stories, the instrument of evil is a young schoolboy who hates his naive schoolmaster and takes a vicious delight in helping to wreck his life. Adult readers who take it for granted that a child's mind is an uncomplicated, open book may find themselves appalled by Miss Barker's chilling expose of little Richard Tustin's craftiness under a surface of bland innocence, his greed for power and his contempt for weak grownups...