Word: regarded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...doubtful whether Kirsten Flagstad's great voice would ever again be heard in the U.S. In her native Norway, 49-year-old Soprano Flagstad was an unrespected citizen. Norwegians regard their fellow countrymen as either politically allgood or all-bad (everyone either collaborated with the Nazis or worked underground against them)-and most Norwegians are convinced that Flagstad was more loyal to her quisling husband than to her country. Now, as her husband frets in jail, she has found little encouragement from the U.S.; the Metropolitan's Edward Johnson has said: "I see no reason...
...distortions of the U.S. scene: "One of the chief complaints we found from our diplomats and information staffs was that our own news services, A.P., U.P., and I.N.S., were doing the same thing, sending out items they thought would be used and displayed . . . to build up their services, without regard to whether people . . . were getting a picture of America. . . . Too often it is race riots, murders, Hollywood loves, divorces...
...careful not to be misunderstood at this point because, to many Americans, the word "Communist" automatically means Russia. One of the things I wanted to find out in China was how much, if any, is the Kremlin behind the Communists in China. Russia's official conduct with regard to the Chinese Communists since they made a pact with Chiang in September 1937 has been perfectly correct and circumspect. There was no evidence that I could find or hear about that Moscow has been backing or supplying, either with materials or with guidance, the Communist government in China during...
...white-haired repair man played sec ond flute and a lathe operator blew the trumpet. A few stuffy music critics regard ed the whole thing as a foolhardy venture...
...Americans who think that the U.S. cultural debt to Asia could be repaid with the return of a few porcelains, screens, Chi nese backscratchers and the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Ranging from agriculture to art, music to philosophy, the essays will be especially helpful to Americans who still regard Asiatics as exotically mysterious beings with whom they have virtually nothing in common...