Word: notes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Professor Pound missed the first meeting of his undergraduate Government 43 course this term, it was the second time in his teaching career that he did not keep an appointment. He had merely failed to note it on his calendar amid the confusion of College and Law School opening dates...
...busy week-he was moving his department from the old State building* on Pennsylvania Avenue to the new War Department Building on 21st Street -Secretary Marshall also found time to write Molotov a note about Korea. He would be glad to begin negotiations looking toward an independent Korean Government, but only on the basis of the U.S. definition of democratic procedure...
...Atop Lenin's Tomb, peace-loving Generalissimo Joseph Stalin reviewed the greatest annual military show on earth. For some five hours, more than a million Red soldiers, sailors and workers marched by. While more than 200 Soviet warplanes swooped overhead, cavalry clattered and giant tanks clanked. The militant note was also struck by Ilya Ehrenburg, one of the Soviet Government's snappiest journalistic terriers. In Pravda, he gave the official text for the day: the U.S. Government does not speak for the American people. Even while the parade is taking place, cried Ilya, "the imperialists with their criminally...
There was nothing else so exciting in Abbott's Santa Claus pack. The rest of the budget contained nothing of note but the promise that the excess profits tax would end Dec. 31. All the excise and nuisance taxes were still there. Cigarets-not even figured in the cost of living-were still taxed at 21?: a pack, about $75 a year for the average smoker. But the immense popularity of income-tax cuts in every bracket was enough to give the Liberals a new hero...
...notch below the rest of the production. The Moscow News critic, D. Rabinovich, had another complaint to make: the crowning of a Czar had been made altogether too happy an event. (Even Mussorgsky, no Communist, had not intended that.) Wrote Critic Rabinovich: "One does not feel the forced note in their 'gaiety'. . . the very magnificence of the coronation scene creates a false impression of brightness and joy instead of its being somber and sinister...