Word: progress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Washington Luiz returned to a Brazil that could report progress under her year-old democratic Constitution. The fact of the Constitution itself was significant. "That," said a Brazilian, "gives us something to respect." President Eurico Caspar Dutra and Brazil's army had followed constitutional procedure when they suppressed the Communist party (TIME, May 19), and had acted only after obtaining the approval of the courts...
...history" of film music: "The person who around 1910 first conceived the repulsive idea of using the Bridal March from Lohengrin as an accompaniment is no more of a historical figure than any other secondhand dealer." Neither does he think that movie music is getting much better: "Progress has become perverted into calculating the audience's reactions, and the result is a combination of third-rate entertainment, maudlin sentimentality. ... It consists only in the fact that trash was taken out of its humble hiding place and set up as an official institution...
Crisis in Paris. There was a crisis of the Marshall plan-that hopeful but somewhat vague U.S. endeavor to solve Europe's economic and political crises. The 16 nations convened in Paris had made scant progress toward mutual self-help (see Conferences). This crisis might still be overcome, but it was psychologically damaging...
...chubby young Prince of the August Succession and Enlightened Benevolence, it had been a most enlightening year. Last week, pleased with his son's progress, the Emperor of Japan rehired Crown Prince Akihito's U.S. tutor for another year, at a raise in salary. Mrs. Elizabeth Gray Vining, a Quaker lady from Philadelphia, had well earned her $2,000 and keep...
That change of attitude showed, as nothing else could, the progress of Jackie Roosevelt* Robinson in the toughest first season any ballplayer has ever faced. He had made good as a major leaguer, and proved himself as a man. Last week The Sporting News, baseball's trade paper, crowned him the rookie of the year. The Sporting News explained, carefully and a little grandiloquently, that it had made the choice solely on the basis of "stark baseball values." Wrote Editor J. G. Taylor Spink...