Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...should let that pass . . . except for the plain implication that my son and I are in disagreement on this important decision of his. This is incorrect. My son made up his own mind on his own initiative. This was as it should have been, but I warmly approved his act. Nothing in it implied disagreement with my general views on American foreign policy, with which he is in accord. I have always applauded men who risk their lives for something in which they believe. I have wanted more, not less, American participation in services of human helpfulness...
...greater part of action movies that have been turned out lately, but it's a difference of degree and not of kind. For essentially Eisenstein's film is just a "don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes" story which takes place on a Prussian plain instead of on a Boston hilltop...
...microphone in Washington last week stepped Donald M. Nelson, the man who is executive director of U.S. defense (although he has no actual power-another thing that drives plain citizens crazy). What he said would in ordinary times have rocked the country like an earthquake. Said Mr. Nelson: The defense program is taking about 17% of the national income. To defeat Hitler in the next three years, the U.S. will probably have to put about 40% of its income into defense. It is quite possible that the U.S.people will have to do without necessities as well as luxuries...
...Herbert Weinstock, who neatly duetted the equally compendious Men of Music for the same shrewd, music-loving publishers.* In their survey of more than three centuries of opera they give some bassoon blatts to some of opera's most sacred cows (Wagner's Parsifal is largely "plain dreary"). Brockway and Weinstock ticket Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera for its less-than-flawless taste, convict it of indifference to native opera...
...Front" or "What Price Glory" were, this show is a quickle whipped out just in time to catch some publicity from the first stages of the war. Tyrone Power enlists in the R.A.F. primarily to show off a smart uniform to chorine Betty Grable. She can't choose between plain love from Tyrone and love with a ring from his commander. Miss Grable's acting still isn't as much above par as her legs, but she is improving rapidly. Power has added a wicked leer to his own somewhat dramatic achievements...