Word: opinionated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Freed has been treated as though he were a criminal or something by the alleged law of the land, and notice we say alleged. It's time for American teen opinion to make itself heard in the resounding crescendo tones that are our birth-right. You can be sure that all over the nation and up in Canada, and in fact Europe, teens will be in spirit walking into that court room with Alan Freed, ready to face the music as it were and holding our heads high too. Of course loyal local teens will show...
...Aroused. Not since Russian troops crushed the Hungarian rebellion had world opinion been so repelled by a Soviet action. In London 14 distinguished writers, ranging across the political spectrum from T. S. Eliot and E. M. Forster to Bertrand Russell and J. B. Priestley, wired the Soviet Writers' Union not to dishonor the great Russian literary tradition by "victimizing a writer revered by the entire civilized world." In Paris, François Mauriac, Albert Camus and Jules Romains expressed their disgust. The Authors League of America cabled that the U.S. writers most popular in Russia were "those who interpreted...
Broadway is an unhealthy place, in the opinion of Producer Manning Gurian, because of the fallout from all those theatrical A-bombs. Knowing the pain of Broadway radiation burns (in 1948 he brought Tennessee Williams' Summer and Smoke into Manhattan after a triumphant three-week road tryout only to see Summer go up in smoke), he has devised a classically simple defense: get out of town. His invaluable asset: a wife named Julie Harris...
...different opinion was expressed by fire department members aiding with registration. "I'm surprised some of the cyclists don't get killed. They break every rule in the book and a few not yet invented," one remarked...
...fact remains that when Europe lived in terror and tyranny, the household of dauntless Germaine de Staël earned the honor of being regarded (in Stendhal's words) as "the Grand Assizes of European opinion...