Word: peculiarities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stratagems peculiar to Benito Mussolini, most typical is what he calls "changing the guard." A Finance Minister at the zenith of successful budgeting is abruptly returned to his private business, as was Count Volpi. A national hero like Atlantic-soaring Italo Balbo is swept off to rule an African province. Last week such a jolt came even to one of the "Four Men," the original Quadrumvirs who led the March on Rome while Mussolini gave orders from 400 miles away in Milan...
...Hollywood had its doubts as to what the result would be. Would Zanuck, struggling to prop up the sagging bulk, suffocate beneath it? Or would he bring it back to life? Last week, with one picture (Metropolitan) released (TIME, Oct. 28), Producer Zanuck showed three more products of his peculiar art. Hollywood scanned them for answers to its questions. The pictures...
Mutiny on the Bounty (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) exhibits more strikingly than any previous cinema in which he has appeared the peculiar capacity of Actor Charles Laughton to seem created by providential dispensation in the identical likeness of whomever he undertakes to impersonate. Actor Laughton is currently in London preparing to appear in an English version of Cyrano de Bergerac. To perfect his understanding of the play, he learned it by heart in French and had up to last week written out twelve copies by memory. Before making Mutiny on the Bounty he went to London, said to Gieves, Bond Street...
...capital importance in any consideration of Eliot. By calling most of Eliot's poetry 'dramatic' Mr. Matthiessen means that Eliot seldom speaks in his own person, even in poems which may seem to be lyrica. Thus Eliot is not Tiresias or Apeneck Sweeney or Mr. Prufrock, and the peculiar spiritual attributes of each are not necessarily Eliot's. The poems in which the persons cited appear are often called to witness by sociological critics of the Marxist persuasion as evidences of Eliot's state of mind under capitalism. Eliot's figures are characters of the contemporary scene, caught off their...
...Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau had been in Washington last week he would have found himself, as the No. 2 member of the Cabinet, in the peculiar position of Acting Vice President of the U. S. (see above). Instead Mr. Morgenthau was leaving France on his way home from a European vacation...