Word: rants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...With rant, doubletalk and repetitious exaggeration, Mostel achieves a weirdly intelligent satire. His first efforts for Basin Street pleased the studio audience more than they did radio listeners, but Mostel, new to the microphone, last week reduced his dependence on pantomime. Some of his established impersonations: an isolationist Senator ("What the hell was Hawaii doing in the Pacific?"); Charles Boyer cooing to Hedy Lamarr ; Hitler explaining his withdrawal from Russia...
...white Detroiters was that they didn't want Negroes living near them. Their, community was too respectable to allow in such undesirables. In other words, it seems to be quite all right to rant against the Nazis' cruelty of forcing Jews into squalid, European ghettos, but it's nothing at all to whet the old knives, arm yourselves with heavy stones, muster an overwhelming majority of supporters, and then forcibly drive hated Negroes back into their equally-bad American slums. Those Detroit citizens, who scorn the Nazi theory of racial superiority, are at the same time hypocritically and vainly picturing...
These things the stolid, seawise commander of the Allied fleets in the Indies weighed at his headquarters in Java. When events go badly for Vice Admiral Helfrich, he does not rant or snarl or gloom. He goes grim. This week he was very grim...
...German people last week believed they knew the next turn that World War II would take. No more fools than citizens of other nations, Germans no longer believe the rant and propaganda which passes for news in their press. But they still buy papers for two reasons: 1) to read the Army communiqués; 2) to see what they, the German people, are being prepared to expect next...
...more; he has made it known that he does not like advice. High officials have a difficult time even getting to see Hitler. Sometimes it takes weeks for them to get in to see him on highly important matters; when they succeed, Hitler uses them as an audience to rant at. Hitler is sure every German man and woman is fanatically behind him and his Greater Germany. No one would dare to suggest otherwise or bring to his attention the signs of discontent among the people...