Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...comedy and says, "Don't cry dear; it's all play-acting," there must be something wrong with the picture, of at least with its classification. It's would be a delusion to think that the flagrant examples of bad taste in "Music for Millions" have made it a poor picture; but except for a scattered routes, "Music for Millions" is quite different from its 1944 model, "Two Girls and a Sailor...
Academically, the label "journalese" can become harsh criticism. But what Lillian helm and does in "The Searching Wind" and what Edward Chodorov does in "Decision" if then made good propaganda and poor theatre. For the same reason that a newspaper editorialist and make facts and figures more palatable than a Congressional committee report, talk, by accenting the personal, can make the social issue of race discrimination more acceptable to the requirements of the stage...
...well prepared their combined operation of expert testimony. General Eisenhower wrote: "Fairness to the country and to the individual's chances of survival in war demand . . . intelligent training of this kind." George C. Marshall, citizen & soldier, said: "[Universal training] would be a perfect demonstration of democracy, with rich & poor alike, side by side, rendering a common service...
Cried the bandits: "We are poor peasants. Ours is a very small business...
Steel production in May was 7.5 million tons, smallest for the month since 1942. Moreover, cutbacks in military orders have not poured into the mills as rapidly as expected. These two facts add up to poor prospects for third-quarter steel deliveries to auto makers and others with plans for reconversion to civilian goods...