Word: relationships
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...irresistible is McCarthy's personality-saucy, lethally precocious and irreverent-that it is all but impossible for listeners to remember that he is a ventriloquist's dummy. The instinct to forget it is natural; no such coldly mechanical term could possibly describe the complex psychological relationship between Charlie McCarthy and Edgar John Bergen...
...Balkans with Russia's apparent acceptance of Britain's bloc in the west. Said the London Spectator: "We must accept these things as perfectly natural acts . . . and not suspect that they may be signs of incipient aggression. The Russians, after all, have never questioned our special relationship to northwestern Europe...
...special faculty meeting on Oct. 12, he made an hour-long speech, cataloguing his troubles with the Board. "The whole matter boils down to two major issues," he said: "The issue of the freedom of the University . . . and the issue of the recognition of the proper relationship between a governing Board and the executive and administrative officers. . . ." He hoped the breach was not "so wide ... it cannot be healed...
...shrugs off the dangerous years. Says she: "They [the Nazis] didn't worry me much. They seemed to mix me up with my sister [famed French WAC officer, Eve Curie] and looked somewhat puzzled when they met me, but I never helped them to work out the family relationship...
...small farmer at best is threatened by the expanding immensity of 20th-century big-business farming. Most impressive-and to many, most depressing-shots in the film show the implacable march of incredibly proficient machines across vast acreages of California and New Jersey, with human beings assuming a relationship to the soil almost as impersonal as work in great factories, or in the bull pens of great companies...