Word: occured
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Defining his position as one of "finding democratic control to keep tyrannical control away," Hicks pointed out that if Fascism wins in Europe, "we can not help but be forced to adopt some imitative form of Fascism ourselves." This, he said, would occur, because a German victory in Europe would give the totalitarian forces in this country not only ideological impetus, but also material support from the "profit-moved business...
Meticulous little Director William Wyler has packed his picture with atmosphere, an elusive quality for movies. He keeps his audience strained with a most effective dramatic time bomb - the constant feeling that something very bad is about to occur. Bette Davis helps with a display of psychopathic evil as repulsive as her Mildred in that other Somerset Maugham cinema success, Of Human Bondage. Herbert Marshall, more limber than usual, behaves appropriately for a true-blue British colonial. James Stephenson, hitherto confined to furnishing British background, gives the part of the lawyer a distinguished, neatly devised piece of acting...
Although we are, technically speaking, as war, conflict with the European Axis powers is doubtful at present. But war with Japan may occur at any moment, because our armed forces are so much nearer to the enemy and because the situation is more delicate...
...there is not, you may be equally sure of the emotional sterility behind them. (But if you are really interested in all this, you will forget the above hogwash, and set about devising a new vocabulary for aesthetics, in which "beauty" and "emotion" and such words do not occur, but in which one can get off this plane of half-baked philosophical daydreaming and come to grips with something precise, scientific. The trouble with aesthetics is that it tries to say the unsayable, and mixes it all up with the sayable. A new and precise vocabulary would separate...
Polling of the Law School will occur today, and the Dudley Commuters are to be repelled because of incomplete returns. Postcards have been sent to the faculty in order to obtain their votes, which should make make it several days before the results are final...