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...object of all this attention is a musical style known as "rock 'n' roll," which has captivated U.S. adolescents as swing captivated prewar teen-agers and ragtime vibrated those of the '20s. It does for music what a motorcycle club at full throttle does for a quiet Sunday afternoon...
...Semenenko went ahead. Jack Warner, 63, was expected to remain as executive producer, but Semenenko planned to bring in new talent and build a team. Priority, he said, would be given to increasing Warners film output; the studio now turns out about 24 features annually v. double that number prewar. After that, continued Semenenko, Warners might diversify into TV stations, allied entertainments, possibly even expand into electronics...
...pint of wine. Workers can go to free vacation camps on the Italian Riviera; their children can go to the Italian Alps in summertime, while retired oldsters can spend their waning years in a free home at Iduno, near Lake Como. As individual productivity has gone up to double prewar records, Pirelli has rewarded his workers with repeated pay boosts, pushed their real wages up 96% in eight years, v. a 28% rise in Italy's cost of living. Result: for the first time Pirelli workers can afford motor scooters, TV sets, even small cars...
...general popular support for New Deal measures, vigorously denied any intent to turn back the clock, the old guard was strong enough heavily to color the positions and pronouncements of their party. As a result, the presence of a general agreement on the essentials of public policy in the prewar years was not apparent in the official party positions. On the contrary, in the late 1930's and the early 1940's, just before our entry into World War II, the political arena bristled with sharply contested divisions between the leadership of the two parties along the entire range...
Jason, despite this psychiatric documentation, is a likable and lively character, the book a pleasant and intimate chronicle of prewar and through-war living. Balchin, one of the most skilled of Britain's popular storytellers, has a fine, spare ear for the speech and the manners of that kind of Englishman who can accuse one another of cowardice, dishonesty or moral turpitude without raising their voices, missing a mouthful of lunch, or disturbing the even tenor of their friendship...