Word: paean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Winged Victory is more a paean to youth than a picture of war. Incorrigibly boyish in tone, it might plead that most Air Forces cadets are little more than little boys. But the boyishness, which merely prettifies the first half of Winged Victory, somewhat falsifies the second half. Far from toughening Playwright Hart's flyers, actual war makes them almost more tender. The later scenes taper off anyhow, like postscripts in a cruder scrawl. Playwright Hart's real play is the training of a cadet. That story is not only vivid and self-contained...
...paean to the good sense of Congressional majorities, Professor Commager says they have been, "to a remarkable extent, stable, law-abiding, and conservative. They have not justified any of the doleful jeremiads of Adams or Hamilton or their successors. They have not taxed wealth out of existence-there are and have long been more great fortunes here than elsewhere in the world; they have not crushed minorities; they have not set up dictatorships; they have not been hostile to education or to science...
...Richard Stafford Cripps. From the starting gun, he maintained that Britain's interest and Russia's were the same. In June 1940 the British Foreign Office sent him as Ambassador to Moscow, apparently as the easiest way to hush him up. Last week he addressed a paean to the Russian people, which if it was as right as his record, was good news. Of Hitler's invasion of Russia...
Called "Out to Shake the World," that article, written by the Post's chief editorialist, Caret Garrett, went into a paean over "an armament program on a scale never hitherto conceived . . . not for ourselves alone but for the British Empire, for the Chinese, for any country now or hereafter that will fight the aggressor until he is dead...
...program Eddie Cantor recited: "You've come up the hard way. old fellow, I mean the hard way, not the soft way like Jell-O." On another', Punster Fred Allen spent 60 minutes abusing his friendly enemy while Wife Portland tried to finish a squeaky paean beginning: ''All hail to Jack Benny...