Word: rave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...started off nicely, anyway. The 1947 football season came roaring into Cambridge in the midst of a blizzard of press clippings and rave notices, that seemed to point to just one thing: one of the host teams in many a year...
...Russia, and he had depicted Marxism as an evolution from earlier philosophy. Thundered Zhdanov: "The origin of Marxism was a real discovery, a revolution in philosophy." In the wake of Zhdanov's thunder, 46 of Aleksandrov's colleagues and coworkers, among them doubtless some who had written rave reviews, slavishly climbed the Zhdanov bandwagon with similar denunciations, and 36 more were awaiting their turns to speak when the meeting closed...
...comprehensive exhibition of her work. Last week a book of her pictures (Grandma Moses, American Primitive, Doubleday; $6) was re-issued with an introduction by Literary Rustic Louis Bromfield, who compared her with Peter Bruegel. Grandma Moses is no Bruegel, but she is no stale Picasso either. Sophisticates rave over the artless joy in her paintings...
Such a Miscalculation. Soviet spokesmen could rant & rave; they had plenty of time for it. The prolongation of Europe's plight played into Communist hands. This was the level where the Soviet Union was well equipped-the ideological level, where Communism feeds on misery and despair. So the inevitable question arose: "What does the U.S. do next...
...fully documented facts presented by Miss Olga Samaroff. To get booking with a decent manager these days, in a country full of budding Rubinsteins and Heifetzes, a young artist must have the good word from New York's critics. Likewise, the composer, for instance, of a new opera. No rave notices equals no more performances of the opera and little chance for production of future operas...