Word: pasting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...individual awards themselves--a quick glance over the past 20 years will show some selections which should even embarrass some of the moguls. However, that can be said of any group which insists on awarding prizes to its contemporaries. Of Hollywood's handful of geniuses--Garbo, Chaplin, Disney, Welles, The Marx Brothers, and W.C. Fields--only Disney has been recognized by the Academy. And the real joke about that is that Disney's awards have always been "Special Awards." This puts him in the same weird position as was Olivier in 1946 when he was given a "Special Award...
...seems to recognize only one religion, and that one is the Roman Catholic. "The Song of Bernadette,' and "Goig My Way" both won many awards and, because of their "religious" nature, were of great prestige value to the Academy and ammunition in their eternal war with moralist groups. This past year, the Academy in its first recognition of foreign-language films, gave its "Oscar" to "Monsieur Vincent," a film dealing with the struggles of a Roman Catholic saint, by-passing one of the finest films of our times "Symphonie Pastorale," which is about a Calvlnist pastor...
...past 3½ months, the House had passed 364 public and private bills. Besides ECA and the arms budget, it had authorized reciprocal-trade extension, rent-control extension, executive reorganization, oleo tax repeal, and extension of export and allocation controls. It had passed every major appropriation bill for the regular departments-a chore Congress usually delays, then jams through in its harried closing minutes...
...Christ with a crown of bona fide barbed-wire thorns and chandelier pendants for tears.) But the abstractions seemed little better: Theodore Roszac's spiny steel Recollection of the Southwest looked no more handsome than a broken bedspring, and Leo Amino's colored plastic Remembrance of Things Past might have been mistaken for a highly original gumdrop display. Such eccentric exhibits made the few conservative examples of academic excellence (including a pair of female nudes by Raymond Puccinelli and Oldtimer William Zorach, both entitled Invocation) look even, finer than they really were...
...these words, the man who made British determination plain to the world strikes the major theme of the second volume of his World War II memoirs. The title, Their Finest Hour, means just what it suggests-an hour in which the shames and hesitancies of the British past have been whipped out of sight, and the triumphs and tragedies of later years are still unforeseeable. Only the absorbing, solitary hour of the British crisis is present-the decisive hour in which the past must be redeemed and the future secured. It was to this decisive moment that Churchill called upon...