Word: moods
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mood of the nation and the House was reflected in the mood of labor. It registered with seismographic sensitivity in Pittsburgh, where the C.I.O.'s Big Three had gathered...
China's story is not all one of civil war, economic fever and malice domestic. Last week, it was spring in Hangchow, the city of Buddhist temples and merry poets, and Chinese in holiday mood were making their annual pilgrimage thither. Armed with a well-thumbed copy of Herbert Allen Giles's translations of Chinese verse, TIME Correspondent Frederick Gruin joined them. His report...
...Premier Stalin himself. The week before, at a midnight interview in the Kremlin, Minnesota's Harold Stassen had asked how come the Herald Tribune could not get a man into Moscow. Said Stalin, after a quick check with Molotov: "A part of the American correspondents have an ill mood toward us. But this Herald Tribune case is an accident. It is an outstanding newspaper." (It was an outstanding accident, for the paper had been trying to get a man to Moscow for more than a year. Newman's accreditation came through two days after Stassen's interview...
Clarity of mood, however, while always appropriate in a photographer, can and is carried to over-extended lengths by the actors of "Ivan The Terrible." Therefore the character development of Ivan, for example, beset by traitor boyar noblemen within his court and hosts of foes without, progresses on a very unrefined level, and a few intimate glimpses fail to humanize a somewhat stereotyped symbol. Contemporary political significance, injected into the concluding scene when Ivan successfully turns to his people for support against his treacherous lieutenants, does unnecessary violence to subtlety for the sake of propaganda...
...Newspaper Editors.* He brought back a strange picture. According to the play, the Average U.S. Newsman drinks a glass of whiskey, straight, about every two minutes, habitually refers to himself as a pig, and talks of little else except money, being ridden by what Pravda, in a playful mood, recently called "dollarium tremens." In the newsmen's bar of Act I, even the coat hooks are gilded, and the jukebox-in magnificent synthesis of American degeneracy-contains not only jungle jazz but liquor. Said one real U.S. newsman who saw the play: "There are only two convincing characters...