Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Naturally the coalition's cocksureness and the Fair Dealers' despair were both exaggerated by the events of the past fortnight. But the Dixiegop, which looked like a new phenomenon to Wayne Morse and a curious hybrid to C.I.O., had been around in one form or another in dozens of Congresses, and it was a species that died hard. No one knew that better-now -than Fair Dealer Harry Truman...
Explained the U.S. publisher, who has sold 425,000 copies of Anna Karenina in the past year: "It was impossible to publish Anna Karenina at its full length in our format, and we felt that a condensed version would be better than none at all. The text was kept in the author's own words . . ." But there would be no market for such an enterprise in Russia. The Literary Gazette said: "With wrath and indignation the reader throws aside this latest lampoon cooked by American literary gangsters who have lost all proportions in their savagery and ignorance...
Oilman Glenn McCarthy's little hootenanny, opening his $21 million Shamrock hotel (TIME, March 21), turned St. Patrick's Day in Houston into a Donnybrook. McCarthy's 2,500 guests (200 of them from Hollywood) milled past dinner-jacketed newsboys at the entrance, stripped the lobby's $1,000 orchid-studded trees bare, guzzled 1,200 bottles of champagne before the banquet. Shamrocks bloomed everywhere-on ashtrays, wastebaskets, even on the panties and bras that McCarthy presented to his women guests. (The men got cowboy boots from the hides of prize cattle that provided the steaks...
Sounds Impractical. Last week, a Carnegie Hall audience got to hear just how much further tall, slender Composer Mennin had advanced. In picking his symphonic form, he had tried something that even Beethoven had never attempted until he was past 50 and had eight great symphonies to his credit. Mennin's Fourth, "The Cycle," was an ambitious choral symphony in which he worked out the chorus in all three movements instead of just the last (as Beethoven did in his Ninth). Said Mennin: "I know a piece that takes so many performers is impractical, but I wanted to write...
...over again." He quit his designing job, joined a cooperative farm colony in Suffolk, England, and spent a year on the soil. When he got back to Belfast he found he had left his surrealist props under a haystack, along with the prissily smooth painting methods of his past...