Word: problems
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...officials were as greatly concerned with "evils of poverty" breeding Communism as they were with the growing strength of Markos' armed bands. From a long-term point of view, they were right, of course. But they were and still are faced with an urgent short-term problem that must be met first. Until the rebellion is quelled there can be no effective reconstruction or economic rehabilitation...
...Harvard philosopher was at grips with a moral problem. In a letter to the left-wing Nation last week, Professor Raphael Demos squinted up over his half-nelsoned shoulder and said...
...professor of philosophy couldn't break the half nelson, though he struggled on. But last week many U.S. concertgoers were pinning the problem to the mat in various ways...
Harvard's Professor Demos had posed his problem specifically about Pianist Walter Gieseking, who had played at Joseph Goebbels' bidding. But in varying degrees other musicians had been tarred with the same brush: Conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler, who had once taken a Nazi post, but who fought to keep the Jewish musicians in his Berlin Philharmonic;* and Flagstad, who had returned to occupied Norway to be with her husband (he died before he could be tried for collaboration). Flagstad had never sung for either quislings or Nazis...
...wheat to music? The idea fascinated him, said Composer Thomson. It was a "problem of representing by music, which is made out of motion, something almost motionless...