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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of what has been done so far to give the people some degree of customary recreation was begun by the Russians, continued by the British and Americans. The people, of course, prefer the Americans to the British and either to the Russians. The Americans are easier to get along with than the British and both are represented by well-disciplined troops, whereas the Russians, in the beginning, were represented by combat soldiers who took their revenge for what happened in Russia. The Russian soldiers now policing Berlin are as well-behaved as those of their Allies, no better...
...TIME writing usually begin like "Outraged was snaggletoothed, bilious, ambidextrous Herman Zilch ..." But nowadays TIME editors do not think highly of backward syntax except as an occasional way of emphasizing a point. Spacesaving sometimes forces us to use a string of adjectives to give a thumbnail sketch, but we prefer nouns that make adjectives unnecessary...
...Belgrade are more tolerant of the Tito regime than are the Americans. They think that on paper Tito's plans are not too bad; that the great misfortune is that the men under him have neither the brains, training nor understanding to carry the plans out. The British prefer to reserve final judgment...
...officers watching for any signs of V-102. Nor can Germany be reshaped merely by putting "democratic" German elements in power. "The German Right are undoubtedly the bloodiest men that have ever defiled the earth. ... I insist upon their being totally liquidated as a political party or force. ... I prefer the German Left. I am not, however, fool enough to take the German Left on trust again...
Mussorgsky: Boris Godunoff (Ezio Pinza and the Metropolitan Opera orchestra and chorus, Emil Cooper conducting; Columbia, 10 sides). Most listeners will probably prefer Kipnis' fine Russian version (TIME, June 4) to Pinza's Italian. Performance: good. Recording: good...