Word: movement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Franklin Roosevelt quickly invited the four sponsors to a White House conference, where the resolution was discussed with Harry Hopkins and Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles. The President approved it, in theory. But apparently the Administration was loth to touch off a Congressional debate: a little movement developed almost at once to stop the resolution's introduction. This was of no avail -Joe Ball has a hard jaw. While the resolution could never bind the Senate's vote on specific details of a peace treaty, it would be, if passed by a two-thirds majority, definite progress...
...akin to these great migrations, there is a movement of the mind of man. The plans for the postwar world are beginning to take shape. The current of thought is beginning to move-slowly, heavily, quakingly-as ice breaks up in the northern rivers under the first warm winds of spring. The news of the postwar world was once news of planners, politicians, theoreticians. It is becoming news of the hopes of plain people all over the globe...
There was such a movement of mankind -greater than either of these-that began in August 1937, when 30,000,000 Chinese left Canton, Hangkow, Tientsin, the cities along the coast and the villages near the invader. They moved from the fertile country of the northeast-10,000,000 of them-and from the southern and central coastal provinces-20,000,000 more. They walked 800 miles and more across the canyoned plateaus and jagged mountains and the plains, or poled sampans up the rivers when the tugs broke down, moved 77 colleges and universities inland and the machinery...
...Concerto for violin and orchestra was a meaningless mass of dissonances which effectively disguised the technical ability of the soloist, Miss Ruth Posselt. The allegro molto seemed to lack any structural form and wandered aimlessly through a series of cacophonous variations on the first subject. The second movement, valse, combined an absurdly technical display by the soloist with a weak background on the strings. Several abrupt pauses in the final movement punctuated the variations on the G-minor theme. Noel Coward's description of Dukelsky's operetta "Yvonne" as "Yvonne the Terrible" might well be extended to include this concerto...
...there were no redeeming features in the other two selections on the program. Burgin's direction of Haydn's C-minor Symphony lacked the lustre and precision of a Koussevitsky' performance; the first movement of Mahler's Third Symphony was nearly as oppressive as the full six movements would have been. The evening proved conclusively that it takes more than a good soloist and a good orchestra to make a good program...